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Tom Taylor-MacLean 
Mohit Gupta - 19 Aug 2025
Another ECS Privilege Escalation Path
ECS has a range of known privilege escalation vectors. We discovered another which relies on using functionality designed for the ECS agent to self-register a compromised EC2 and override a task definition. A variant of this for ECS on Fargate is also discussed.