Major Container Security Flaw Threatens Cascading Attacks

runc, a building-block project for the container technologies used by many enterprises as well as public cloud providers, has patched a vulnerability that would allow root-level code-execution, container escape and access to the host filesystem. Discovered by researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys...

RunC Flaw Lets Attackers Escape Linux Containers to Gain Root on Hosts

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the core runC container code that affects several open-source container management systems, potentially allowing attackers to escape Linux container and obtain unauthorized, root-level access to the host operating system. The vulnerability,...

Container Security Becomes a Priority for Enterprises

Among the IT innovations that businesses are using to digitally transform operations, containers might be the most disruptive and revolutionary. “They’re a real game changer,” Qualys Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said at QSC 2018 in Las Vegas. DevOps teams have embraced containers because...

ThreatList: Container Security Lags Amidst DevOps Enthusiasm

The high-velocity application- and process-development practices collectively known as DevOps has become a core goal for many enterprises, as they look to respond to market forces more dynamically. This embrace is pushing container deployments forward as necessary tools for executing the vision o...

Kubernetes user privilege elevation vulnerability, the exposure to security risks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, Kubernetes open source container software found a key of a user privilege elevation vulnerability, CVE-2018-1002105, which software is today most of the cloud infrastructure of the fixed component. This vulnerability can allow an attacker unrestricted remote access, steal data, or cause...

Kubernetes Flaw is a "Huge Deal," Lays Open Cloud Deployments

A critical privilege-escalation vulnerability CVE-2018-1002105 has been uncovered in the Kubernetes open-source container software, which is a fixture in much of today’s cloud infrastructure. It could allow an attacker unfettered, remote access for stealing data or crashing production application...

“Fire Danger Rating” on “High” in Security Climate

November was a scary month in California. After four years of drought, the forests and towns in the northern part of the state exploded into wildfires, displacing thousands of residents and destroying millions of dollars of property. The foul air in San Francisco and the surrounding areas was a...

Securing Containers in The AWS Cloud with Trend Micro

Rapid adoption of containers is changing the way that businesses build their applications. Services like Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate let builders focus on solving business problems instead of managing infrastructure. But the move to containers also requires a shift in how you approach...

ThreatList: One-Third of Firms Say Their Container Security Lags

Even as companies move to embrace cloud deployments and containers, most organizations with such deployments don’t feel prepared to adequately secure cloud-native applications. According to StackRox’ State of Container Security report, which polled about 230 respondents in the U.S., more than a...

Security update for singularity (moderate)

Singularity was updated to version 2.6.0, bringing features, bugfixes and security fixes. Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-12021: Fixed access control on systems supporting overlay file system boo1100333. Highlights of 2.6.0: - Allow admin to specify a non-standard location for mksquashfs binary...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Azure

Qualys is expanding its security and compliance capabilities for Microsoft Azure, by adding protection for the on-premises Azure Stack and extending capabilities for public cloud deployments. By using Qualys’ platform to defend hybrid IT environments, organizations get a unified view of their...

Securing Container Deployments with Qualys

With container adoption booming, security teams must protect the applications that DevOps teams create and deploy using this method of OS virtualization. The security must be comprehensive across the entire container lifecycle, and built into the DevOps pipeline in a way that is seamless and...

Black Hat USA 2018 Best Practices Videos

Watch the presentations from the Qualys booth at Black Hat USA 2018, available online now. Learn how your peers are securing their environments and see the breadth and depth of Qualys solutions. Industry-Leading Best Practices Qualys customers explain how they run their industry-leading security...

Eager to Boost your Container Security? Don’t Miss this Webcast

DevOps teams can’t get enough of containers -- and for good reason. Faster and more efficient application development and deployment, as well as increased application portability, are some container technology benefits, which in turn help drive digital transformation efforts. Container-based...

CVE-2018-11757

CVE-2018-11757 affects Docker Skeleton Runtime for Apache OpenWhisk. A Docker action using openwhisk/dockerskeleton:1.3.0 (or earlier) may allow an attacker to replace the user function inside the container if the user code is vulnerable to code exploitation. The issue is described in multiple so...

podman elevation of privilege vulnerability

libpod is a library for running OCI-based containers in Pods. podman is one of the tools for managing Pods. A security vulnerability exists in podman 0.6.1 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to enable containers to gain elevated privileges...

This Week in Security News: Macs, Hacks and Attacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, GitHub was hacked via their official account with cryptocurrency Sycoin. Also, a phishing attack targeting trustee company HealthEquity led ...

QSC18 Virtual Edition – Building Security In: The Qualys Cloud Platform and Architecture

Digital transformation, driven primarily by the DevOps movement, represents a new opportunity “to redo IT from scratch, but more importantly, to redo security from scratch,” Sumedh Thakar, Qualys' Chief Product Officer, said during QSC18 Virtual Edition. Specifically, organizations can organicall...

AWS Invites Trend Micro to Give a Sneak Peek Of Our New Stuff

You can tell a lot by the company someone keeps. This is one of many reasons we are so proud to have been invited to present at an Amazon event today. Amazon is hosting an EKoS Day in San Francisco and will be highlighting their newly launched Amazon EKS offering. We are giving a sneak peek of th...

CVE-2018-1000400

KVE- CVE-2018-1000400 affects Kubernetes CRI-O prior to 1.9. The vulnerability arises from a Privilege Context Switching Error in handling ambient capabilities, allowing containers to run with elevated privileges. The initial description notes exploitation via container execution and a fix in 1.9...