Re:Show HN: SmokedMeat, like Metasploit, but for CI/CD (open...
by flexorium on Friday April 17, 2026 @07:22AM
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That’s definitely part of the solution to limit the risk, but it does not eliminate it. That’s exactly something the tool demonstrates very well. If you can exploit , you can gently ask OIDC to mint you access on the fly. That’s what I call “dwell mode” where you hang for say 1 minute and you perform arbitrary thing with the OIDC access. So yes with short lived creds there’s no “offline access” and if leaves more traces but still.
On the defensive side, we are pushing to OIDC short-lived tokens - eliminating the this risk altogather