# Episode 177: 2x Google RCE with VRP Legend Brutecat Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-thinking-bug-bounty-podcast-5951018/episode-177-2x-google-rce-with-vrp-legend-brutecat Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-thinking-bug-bounty-podcast-5951018/episode-177-2x-google-rce-with-vrp-legend-brutecat.md Podcast: [Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-thinking-bug-bounty-podcast-5951018) Published: 2026-06-04T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://criticalthinkingpodcast.io Audio file: https://audio-delivery.cohostpodcasting.com/audio/8d5e4388-13f4-45c8-b82f-aff313a5ac76/episodes/0fe4f0e0-3fa1-4d89-8524-26e8c12f54ec/episode.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/critical-thinking-bug-bounty-podcast-5951018/episodes/episode-177-2x-google-rce-with-vrp-legend-brutecat Duration seconds: 5127 ## Resource Episode 177: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we’re joined by BruteCat to talk about his journey hacking Google Cloud, Gmail, Youtube, and Google Phone. Follow us on twitter at: https://x.com/ctbbpodcast Got any ideas and suggestions? Feel free to send us any feedback here: info@criticalthinkingpodcast.io Shoutout to YTCracker for the awesome intro music! ====== Links ====== Follow your hosts Rhynorater, rez0 and gr3pme on X:  https://x.com/Rhynorater https://x.com/rez0__ https://x.com/gr3pme Critical Research Lab: https://lab.ctbb.show/   Need a Pentest? We just launched CTBB Pentests! https://pentest.ctbb.show/ Hack full time? Check out the Full-Time Hunter’s Guild! https://ctbb.show/fthg ====== Ways to Support CTBBPodcast ====== Hop on the CTBB Discord at https://ctbb.show/discord ! We also do Discord subs at $25, $10, and $5 - premium subscribers get access to private masterclasses, exploits, tools, scripts, un-redacted bug reports, etc. You can also find some hacker swag at https://ctbb.show/merch ! Today's Sponsor: Check out Zero Trust Cloud Access from ThreatLocker https://www.criticalthinkingpodcast.io/tl-ztca Today’s Guest: https://x.com/brutecat ====== Resources ====== StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production https://brutecat.com/articles/google-cloud-rce/ Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails/ Disclosing YouTube Creator Emails for a $20k Bounty https://brutecat.com/articles/youtube-creator-emails/ Leaking the phone number of any Google user https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-google-phones/ ====== Timestamps ====== (00:00:00) Introduction (00:29:14) 2nd RCE in Application Integration (00:39:55) BruteCat's Background & RCE Follow-up Questions (00… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/critical-thinking-bug-bounty-podcast-5951018/episodes/episode-177-2x-google-rce-with-vrp-legend-brutecat/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-thinking-bug-bounty-podcast-5951018/episode-177-2x-google-rce-with-vrp-legend-brutecat.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.