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DET-C3: Workload image or environment changed on the Confidential VM

setMetadata changed tee-image-reference or a tee-env-* value on the workload VM: the next boot runs different code or configuration.

Property Value
Severity high
Platform GCP Confidential Space
Group tee
Log source Cloud Audit Logs · Compute
Related check CSPACE-META-01: Confidential VM metadata is not broadly mutable

Fires when

compute.instances.setMetadata AND workload image / tee-env key changed on the workload CVM

How it runs

untrust detect --platform sev-snp reads the project's Cloud Audit Logs over the last --since minutes (default 60).

A match is a detection event with this rule's ID. Upload it to the console to alert on it; see Runtime detections.