Every time you see that internal IP address in logs, code, or payloads: . Protect your metadata. Protect your cloud.
Instead, this string is an representation of a command and an internal IP address. curl-url-http-3A-2F-2F169.254.169.254-2Flatest-2Fapi-2Ftoken
$url = $_GET['url']; $image = file_get_contents($url); If the attacker supplies: Every time you see that internal IP address