Severe Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Kubernetes (CVE-2018-1002105)

Earlier this week, a severe vulnerability in Kubernetes (CVE-2018-1002105) was disclosed that allows an unauthenticated user to perform privilege escalation and gain full admin privileges on a cluster. The CVE was given the high severity score of 9.8 (out of 10) and it affects all Kubernetes versions from 1.0 onwards, but fixes are available for recent versions. 

After we made the Aqua Security Scanner for PCF announcement last spring, we started the process of supporting Pivotal Container Service (PKS).  Many Pivotal Cloud Foundry PAS customers have tested PKS and many are in production.   Having been on the security infrastructure side of life for a couple decades, this doesn’t surprise me at all because …

We’re pleased to announce that the Aqua Container Security Platform is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This is the industry’s first consumption-based security solution for containers, enabled for Kubernetes, providing full lifecycle container security from development to production.

AWS made its Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) generally available today. We at Aqua had access to the preview version for some time, which allowed us to ensure that our container security platform works with EKS to provide its full spectrum of runtime protection capabilities. 

Kubernetes 1.10 was officially released recently, with many new enhancements and improvements. This version of Kubernetes, which is lighter on the security side compared to the recent 1.9 and 1.8 releases that were very security focused, offers several new worthy security related features.

Since the second half of 2017, Kubernetes has been gaining momentum in adoption as well as in its ecosystem support. We see more and more enterprises choosing Kubernetes for the orchestration of their cloud native deployments. This is in no small part thanks to the many enterprise-grade features added in versions 1.8 and 1.9, including …

From a “humble” $762 million in 2016, containers are predicted to grow faster than any other technology this year (as well as the next) and are on the way to become a $2.7B industry by 2020.

We recently released the first prototype of Manifesto, a tool for storing metadata alongside a container image. Metadata can hold information about software that can change even if the software itself doesn’t, and we can use this information to create powerful automation tools.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) published a new benchmark last week for Kubernetes 1.6. As the adoption of container technologies grows rapidly, orchestrators have become a key enabler, since large-scale deployments can’t be managed efficiently by humans.

One of the neat features of the Aqua Security solution is the ability to inject secrets into the environment of a running container, so that they never get written to disk. In this article I’m setting up an Aqua installation on Azure, using Kubernetes as the orchestrator and HashiCorp Vault as the secrets store, so …