The fundamental issue is that links without any form of access control are presumed private, simply because there is no public index of the available identifiers.
Just last month, a story with a premise of discovering AWS account ids via buckets[0] did quite well on HN. The consensus established in the comments is that if you are relying on your account identifier being private as some form of security by obscurity, you are doing it wrong. The same concept applies here. This isn’t a novel security issue, this is just another method of dorking.
Just last month, a story with a premise of discovering AWS account ids via buckets[0] did quite well on HN. The consensus established in the comments is that if you are relying on your account identifier being private as some form of security by obscurity, you are doing it wrong. The same concept applies here. This isn’t a novel security issue, this is just another method of dorking.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512896