CVE-2019-5021: Alpine Docker Image ‘null root password’ Vulnerability

A new vulnerability that impacts Alpine Docker images was published last week. The vulnerability is due to the ‘root’ user password which is set, by default, to NULL on Alpine Docker images from version 3.3 or higher.

In traditional cloud native environments, actions such as building and deploying applications will usually involve working directly with images hosted in one or more registries. Customers wishing to track changes in those images, in order to identify security and compliance issues, would need to set up an automatic process of constantly scanning them by connecting …

Containers make it very easy to package and deliver applications, so it’s not surprising that many ISVs (Independent Software Providers) are leading the trend of packaging their software, whether it’s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or custom-developed code, as container images. These images are then fed into the enterprise customer’s CI/CD pipeline, and are often treated in …

Many organizations use Pivotal Cloud FoundryⓇ (PCF), one of the world’s most powerful cloud native platforms. PCF enables developers and operators to iterate rapidly, and help expand and launch new businesses fast, as well as deliver extraordinary user experiences to their customers.

When it comes to securing containerized applications, the first item on everyone’s agenda is to ensure that only trusted images are running in your environment, based on security and compliance policies. And for good reason too. This is by far the most effective preventive measure you can take to protect your applications.

A couple of months ago Aqua Security were part of a group of companies supporting the launch of Grafeas, an open source API initially introduced by Google that allows users to manage and query metadata about software artifacts.

Amazon Web Services announced today at re:Invent an to a recent feature PrivateLink, that enables AWS Virtual Private Cloud customers to consume apps outside their VPCs through service endpoints, using their own private IP addresses and security groups. This is a non-trivial task since VPCs are made to be isolated, so normally, making an external SaaS application …

Today we announced the availability of a new offering on AWS – our on-demand, pay-per-scan security scanner for container images is now available in the AWS Marketplace. The scanner is a full-featured version of Aqua’s image scanning capabilities found in the Aqua Container Security Platform, but with a licensing mechanism that enables a pay-per-scan model, …

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.