Summary
Member-only story Hacker Holidays 2026: Day 9 Walkthrough (CryptoCabana) A hardcoded SAS token in the website’s JavaScript led to a service account. That service account unlocked an Azure Key Vault. The vault’s version history gave up the flag. This is part of my Hacker Holidays 2026 walkthrough series. Read all walkthroughs here: This is Day 9 of my Hacker Holidays 2026 walkthrough series. Day 3 covered AWS misconfigurations. Today, we move to Microsoft Azure and exploit a chain of cloud security failures that starts with a leaked storage token and ends with us extracting secrets from Azure Key Vault. If you work with Azure in any capacity, this challenge is a must-study. Every vulnerability demonstrated here is something I have seen on real-world cloud environments. The Setup Before tackling the challenge, we need to set up our Azure environment.