Linux Kernel Vulnerability: Escaping Containers by Abusing Cgroups

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Linux Kernel Vulnerability: Escaping Containers by Abusing Cgroups

CVE-2022-0492, a recently disclosed high-severity Linux vulnerability that relates to a weakness in the handling of release_agent in cgroups, could allow for container escape under some circumstances. Fortunately, in common container configurations, the various layers of security hardening will block the effective execution of this vulnerability.

RUNTIME SECURITY

Detect and Prevent Exploits in Runtime with Vulnerability Shielding

A single vulnerability in one of the code dependencies can put an entire application at risk, yet 48% of organizations knowingly push vulnerable code into production regularly. With a heavy reliance on open source software to build applications, patching a myriad of vulnerabilities has become an extremely hard and time-consuming task. It’s not always possible, …

Vulnerability Management in Container Images from Build to Runtime

When it comes to containerized workloads, resolving the underlying image’s security vulnerabilities is paramount to ensuring the safety of your environment. Getting security risk information into the hands of developers quickly and efficiently is key to keeping development cycles as short as possible while maintaining a strong application security posture. What risk information can you …

Vulnerability Scanning for Kubernetes Applications: Why and How

If you’re looking to improve the security posture of your Kubernetes applications, you can get a lot of bang for your buck with vulnerability scanning. In this blog, I’ll talk about the fundamentals of scanning container images: how to pick a vulnerability scanner, when to use it in the application pipeline, and why you should …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management in Container Images

There’s an overwhelming number of vulnerabilities in container images – and the security of your deployments is probably suffering because of it. No matter the size of your organization, it’s a significant challenge to identify the biggest risks to your business and know what to tackle first. Merely classifying and filtering CVEs by the highest …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Cloud Native Security Best Practices: Vulnerability Management

After four years of securing cloud native applications, our team at Aqua has learned a thing or two about applying best practices in the real world. We’ve seen many organizations succeed in establishing a sound process and tooling to achieve their security goals, and we’ve also seen those who struggle to prioritize and manage their …

Docker Image Scanning in your Codefresh Pipeline with Aqua

There are many benefits to implementing CI/CD platforms, such as enabling fast and frequent release cycles of software and applications, but with great speed comes great responsibility. It is crucial to add security controls around container image creation and deployment to ensure that your applications are properly secure before they are deployed.

Mitigating Container Image Vulnerabilities with Aqua Vulnerability Shield™

Managing known vulnerabilities in container images has been one of the first issues to get the attention of organizations that adopt containers. Knowing what vulnerabilities (CVEs) lurk in your image code is important, but fixing or patching the images that contain vulnerabilities has been a challenge, since it’s not always easy, speedy, or even possible …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

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.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Streamline Image Vulnerability Management for OpenShift Image Streams

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 …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Using Aqua to Secure Applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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.

How Aqua Scans Container Images On-Demand From The AWS Marketplace

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, …

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