Last month at DockerCon Europe we learned that container adoption is rising to a whole new level with 24 billion container downloads and 77K% growth in Docker job listings. This is when Docker also announced that it now supports Kubernetes. Combine this with the recent news from The Cloud Native Computing …
A “Stack Clash” is a vulnerability in the memory management of several operating systems, including Linux. It can be exploited by attackers to corrupt memory of a privileged process in order to execute arbitrary code.
The PCI Data Security Standard is no news. Any entity that collects, holds or processes credit card information is obliged by this standard. What is new is the adoption of containers for production applications that may directly impact PCI compliance. With a 40% increase in Docker adoption in one year, containers …
In just about a week we will be live on stage at BlackHat 2017 with this tersely titled talk: Well that Escalated Quickly! How Abusing Docker API Led to Remote Code Execution Same Origin Bypass and Persistence in the Hypervisor via Shadow Containers, and we are very excited.
DevOps professionals continue to believe they can’t do their jobs properly because security slows down operations. Security pros, meanwhile, have largely failed to integrate security measures into DevOps initiative, resulting in unproductive friction.
RunC Like the Wind
Recently, an interesting vulnerability was discovered (CVE-2016-9962) that enables container escape to the host. The vulnerability stems from a bug found in opencontainers' runc code, which is used by several container engines, including Docker.
Cisco announced a few days ago that it discovered and fixed a critical vulnerability in its CloudCenter Orchestrator, whereby a misconfiguration caused the Docker Engine management port to be reachable outside of the CloudCenter Orchestrator system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by loading Docker …
Working with several customers who are "heavy" adopters of Docker containers, we've seen environments where thousands of Docker images are built on almost a daily basis. Organizations that fully commit to continuous integration often commit developer code into the image build process, which results in images being …
Last month we announced support for Windows containers and automating image scanning as a step in Microsoft VSTS. I'm happy to announce that Aqua supports the new (yet to be officially released) Azure Container Registry, or ACR.
There has been plenty of buzz lately regarding an old-new privilege escalation vulnerability, adorably named “Dirty COW” after the Copy-On-Write memory protection in the Linux kernel. The whole thing started roughly eleven years ago, when a kernel developer left a race condition issue opened: “This is an ancient …