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- Not showing the actual query is somewhat disappointingby ryanschaefer
- A critical vulnerability chain in Azure Cosmos DB enabled full read and write access to every Cosmos DB database.by uvuv
- It took them 6 months to fix this properly?
- Is it me or was there a similar vulnerability reported a few years ago? Something about the attacker getting access to all platform's users' databases, though not sure if it was cosmos or something similar.by sakisv
- Vaguely remember reading that ChatGPT uses CosmosDB, even ScottGu spoke about it.by abkolan
- "Cosmos Master Key"... I can see why that would have been convenient, but talk about a footgun. Right out of a Marvel movie. Still, if admin backdoor access is business-necessary, is the answer a unique admin access key per account?
- Incredible that this is the second time Wiz has discovered a global Cosmos DB vulnerability (https://chaosdb.wiz.io/) and a shock that anyone is trusting Microsoft, Azure or in particular Cosmos DB with anything mission criticalby redwood
- > Cosmos DB's engine translated Gremlin queries into .NET code, enforcing a set of restrictions designed to prevent queries from reaching beyond Gremlin operations. These restrictions, however, didn't sufficiently account for .NET reflection
Wow, this is so unbelievably amateurish.
by gtowey