Request-url-http-3a-2f-2f169.254.169.254-2flatest-2fmeta Data-2fiam-2fsecurity Credentials-2f Online

If you found this in your logs, : someone may have attempted SSRF, or a compromised process may have legitimately accessed metadata in an unexpected way.

The IP address 169.254.169.254 is a used by AWS (and other cloud providers) for the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) . If you found this in your logs, :

This can expose unintended or restricted resources which only the vulnerable system should have access to, inadvertently allowing ... Introduction to the Instance Metadata Service 20 Dec 2020 — : someone may have attempted SSRF