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Vertex AI SDK Bucket Squatting Flaw Enables Model Hijack

Vertex AI SDK Bucket Squatting Flaw Enables Model Hijack

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 8.5 The Hacker News

A vulnerability in the Google Cloud Vertex AI Python SDK allowed unauthenticated attackers to intercept model uploads by pre-registering predictable staging bucket names — a technique Unit 42 calls 'Pickle in the Middle'. Once a malicious model replaced the legitimate upload, arbitrary code executed inside Google's serving infrastructure via pickle deserialization. Google patched the flaw in v1.148.0 after disclosure in March 2026, but the incident highlights systemic risks in ML pipeline supply chains.

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