containers

Earlier in the year, while doing some research for my talk at Troopers 2019, in which I examined build systems and the how git can cause security issues, I found a git related vulnerability in Docker. This vulnerability has since been assigned CVE-2019-13139 and was patched in the Docker engine update 18.09.4. The issue is a relative straight forward command injection, however, what possibly makes it a little more interesting is that it occurs in a Go code base....

Containers, Docker containers in particular, are deployed everywhere these days. This is especially true in build environments or your typical CI/CD pipeline. A frequent requirement in these environments is the ability to build Docker container images, which tends to introduce security vulnerabilities through misconfiguration. One typically finds that the docker daemon is exposed to allow for so-called docker-in-docker builds, which I’ve previously shown can easily lead to container breakout. This means I’m always on the lookout for possible places that the Docker daemon/API might be directly accessible....