Forensia CTI Core

Summary

Ingested excerpt (first ~500 chars of normalized text).

Pickle in the Middle – Hijacking Vertex AI Model Uploads for Cross-Tenant RCE Unit 42 discovered a Vertex AI Python SDK vulnerability that allows remote code execution via bucket squatting. Read the article for more. The post Pickle in the Middle – Hijacking Vertex AI Model Uploads for Cross-Tenant RCE appeared first on Unit 42 . Pickle in the Middle – Hijacking Vertex AI Model Uploads for Cross-Tenant RCE Menu Tools ATOMs Security Consulting About Us Under Attack? Threat R…

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/hijacking-vertex-ai-model

sha256:75d3775790607a79773dd17271b22ee276c94cd34d7893a2e9998ef6b4ca7d85

What we pulled out

Deterministic extractor (IOC + allowlisted tokens + ATT&CK IDs present in DB).

cve1
md50
url0
ipv40
ipv60
sha10
domain18
sha2560
malware_token0
attack_pattern0
threat_actor_token0

Indicators

Linked with report → mentions → indicator. Values open the indicator workspace.

Type	Value	Link
domain	aiplatform.init	Open →
cve	CVE-2026-0257	Open →
domain	joblib.load	Open →
domain	pickle.load	Open →
domain	storage.client	Open →
domain	storage.bucket	Open →
domain

Malware families

Allowlist token matches only.

None extracted.

Threat actors mentioned

Allowlist mentions — not a formal attribution verdict.

None extracted.

ATT&CK techniques

MITRE IDs referenced in text and present in local technique table.

None linked (import ATT&CK or adjust text).

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