services / Google Cloud / Compute Engine health checks

Create and manage legacy HTTP health checks used by Cloud load balancers.

Exploitation relies on multiple additional exercisable risks, including poorly secured backend endpoints, the ability to route to this infrastructure, and provisioned forwarding rules to the subject backends.

compute.​httpHealthChecks.​create

Risks

1. Denial-of-service (HIGH)

Scope: MEDIUM

This privilege may grant access to confidential data, or its exploit can incur operational cost.

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