Patch, Ditch, Dodge, or Deal? Your Call on Vulnerabilities

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VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Patch, Ditch, Dodge, or Deal? Your Call on Vulnerabilities

Security teams are drowning in vulnerabilities. Cloud native environments can generate tens of thousands of new findings every month, even before factoring in CI/CD pipelines and third party dependencies. With this volume, the challenge is not just finding vulnerabilities, it is deciding what to do about them. Fix everything? Impossible. Ignore everything? Risky. The key …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Trivy Can Now Scan Unpackaged Binary Files

Trivy, the all-in-one security scanner, is now able to scan binary files in your scan targets such as container images. Most security scanners rely on package managers to discover vulnerabilities. Trivy now uses Rekor from Sigstore to look up the hash of a binary file. If a relevant SBOM is found through the hash, Trivy …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Find the New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities with Trivy

Today, OpenSSL announced two new CVEs and mitigation recommendations. This blog provides guidance as to how you can identify the Open SSL vulnerability using Trivy. To both identify and mitigate the vulnerability, see this blog post Updated Security Advisory: New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities about mitigation with assurance policies in Aqua’s software supply chain solution.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Updated Security Advisory: New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities

The OpenSSL project has pre-announced a new and critical severity vulnerability, which was downgraded to High as of today, Nov. 1, 2022. The initial pre-announcement blog has been updated here to reflect additional remediation guidance.

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Trivy: The Universal Scanner to Secure Your Cloud Migration

Application security teams are challenged today with the need for a centralized view of exposure to security issues like Log4j and Spring4Shell. But an exploding set of artifacts and security tools makes it prohibitively difficult to secure the development life cycle. A universal scanner drastically reduces this management overhead and gets you started quickly.

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Trivy v0.29.0 Release: RBAC, Helm, Custom Extensions, and More

The new Trivy release is out! As ever, there are tons of exciting updates and features, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and Helm chart scanning, support for custom extensions, a Trivy Operator Lens integration, and many more. Read on for feature highlights and try them out.

SECURITY RESEARCH

CVE-2021-44832: Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Log4j

This holiday season, adversaries aren’t taking a vacation, massively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Log4j, a highly popular Java logging library. Amid the ongoing efforts of organizations to patch their vulnerable systems, a new Log4j vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44832, has been discovered. It allows for an arbitrary code execution via JDBC Appender when an attacker can …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

CVE-2021-45046: Second Log4j Security Vulnerability Discovered

Dec 17 update: The CVSSv3 score for CVE-2021-45046 has been raised from 3.7 to 9.0. While many organizations are still dealing with the discovery and mitigation process for the previous Log4j CVE, the project has announced that another vulnerability CVE-2021-45046 has been discovered due to an incomplete fix in Log4j 2.15.0. In response, a new …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

CVE-2021-44228 aka Log4Shell Vulnerability Explained

Log4Shell, a new, critical zero-day vulnerability that crashed onto the scene last Friday, shows how issues that are hidden in seemingly basic functionality can have major repercussions for enterprise security. When the dust settles from the immediate incident response and remediation, organizations should assess how they can improve their detection and responses, because this vulnerability …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Golang Scanning with Trivy: Detect Vulnerabilities Accurately

A standard piece of security advice is to reduce the size of your container images, usually by using statically compiled binaries in a scratch or distroless container. However, that complicates container vulnerability scanning, because it becomes impossible to determine the versions of software installed in a container image. Fortunately, if you’re using Trivy, a popular …

The Rise of CNAPP and How It Protects Your Applications

A prospect’s CISO recently asked me: “I’m facing a growing stream of vulnerabilities coming from our CI/CD pipelines on the one hand, while our SecOps team is flooded with alerts and configuration issues from our production environment. How do I reconcile those separate streams and focus on what’s really important?” “Well,” I responded, “funny you …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

A Brief Guide to Supply Chain Security Best Practices

With the rise in attacks targeting the supply chain of cloud native applications, it’s important to understand how you can prepare for and stifle risks that enter your environments through third-party packages and tools. This post outlines the top software supply chain security best practices that should be included in any organization’s cloud native strategies.

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