services / Google Cloud / Google App Engine Instances

An instance is the computing unit that fully hosts an App Engine application. An application may be running on one or more instances, with scaling and request routing managed by Google.

appengine.​instances.​delete

App Engine will recreate the instance based on the scaling settings for the app, but repeated deletions could still cause a DOS since in-flight requests may be dropped on deletion (the app has 30 seconds to finish processing in-flight requests.)

Risks

1. Denial-of-service (HIGH)

Scope: CRITICAL

This privilege may grant access to sensitive data from a significant fraction of organizational functions, allow interruption of critical organizational services, or its exploit could lead to significant privilege escalation.

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