Google’s Vertex AI SDK could allow RCE through bucket squatting

A design flaw in the Vertex AI software development kit (SDK) for Python, Google Cloud’s managed platform for building, training, and deploying AI agents, could allow hijacking and poisoning of models outside of a developer’s own Google Cloud project. According to Unit 42 researchers, a combination of bad bucket naming logic and missing authentication made it possible for an attacker to hijack the victim’s project by just knowing their project ID and region. “Since no two buckets across all of G