Hayat - Auditing & Hardening Script For Google Cloud Platform

Hayat is a auditing & hardening script for Google Cloud Platform services such as: Identity & Access Management Networking Virtual Machines Storage Cloud SQL Instances Kubernetes Clusters for now. Identity & Access Management Ensure that corporate login credentials are used instead of Gmail...

USN-3836-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3836-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel mishandles mapping UID or GID ranges inside...

USN-3836-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel mishandles mapping UID or GID ranges inside nested user namespaces in some situations. A local attacker could use this to bypass access controls on resources outside the namespace. CVE-2018-18955 Philipp Wendler discovered that the overlayfs implementati...

USN-3777-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3777-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence numb...

Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication 2FA for online accounts with the highest...

USN-3718-1: Linux kernel regression

USN-3695-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2018-1108 introduced a regression where insufficient early entropy prevented services from starting, leading in some situations to a failure to boot, This update addresses the issue. We...

USN-3695-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the crc32c checksum driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-1094 It was discovered that the cdrom driver in the Linux kernel contained an...

CVE-2018-1197

In Windows Stemcells versions prior to 1200.14, apps running inside containers in Windows on Google Cloud Platform are able to access the metadata endpoint. A malicious developer could use this access to gain privileged credentials...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Windows Stemcells versions prior to 1200.14, apps running inside containers in Windows on Google Cloud Platform are able to access the metadata endpoint. A malicious developer could use this access to gain privileged credentials...

CVE-2018-1197

In Windows Stemcells versions prior to 1200.14, apps running inside containers in Windows on Google Cloud Platform are able to access the metadata endpoint. A malicious developer could use this access to gain privileged credentials...

CVE-2018-1197

The CVE affects Cloud Foundry Windows Stemcells prior to 1200.14. In these versions, apps running inside containers on Windows in Google Cloud Platform could access the GCP metadata endpoint, enabling a malicious developer to obtain privileged credentials. Root cause: exposure of the metadata end...

CVE-2018-1197

In Windows Stemcells versions prior to 1200.14, apps running inside containers in Windows on Google Cloud Platform are able to access the metadata endpoint. A malicious developer could use this access to gain privileged credentials...

USN-3548-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

USN-3548-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jay Vosburgh discovered a logic error in the x86-64 syscall entry implementation in the Linux...

USN-3468-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash. CVE-2017-1000252 It was discovered that the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs implementation in the Linux...

USN-3443-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerability

Andrey Konovalov discovered that a divide-by-zero error existed in the TCP stack implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-14106...

Kubebot: A Kubernetes Based Security Testing Slackbot

PenTestIT RSS Feed About a week ago, I blogged about List of Portable Hardware Devices for Penetration Testing. The tool that I am blogging about today - Kubebot - can be an awesome example and be installed very easily on a Raspberry Pi that you have lying around. Best part is that this is open...

Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine Instance Metadata Enumeration (Unix)

The remote host appears to be a Google Compute Engine instance. Nessus was able to use the metadata API to collect information about the system. TRUSTED...

Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine Instance Metadata Enumeration (Windows)

Binary data enumerategooglecomputeenginewin.nbin...

How to protect web applications on Google Cloud Platform with WAF?

Many of the developers we speak to are interested in taking advantage of Google Compute Cloud for developing and hosting their web applications. The advantages are many from reasonable costs to built in scalability to high level of availability built right into the platform. However, the develope...

Google Cloud Platform Audit

Google Cloud Platform Audit gcp-audit takes a set of projects and audits them for common issues as defined by its ruleset. Issues can include, but are certainly not limited to, storage buckets with read/write permissions for anyone and compute engine instances with services exposed to the Interne...