What’s New in InsightVM: Q2 2021 in Review

The world is changing rapidly. We hear that phrase a lot. Throughout Q2 though, it really is true. Vaccines have been rolling out, to varying success depending on the part of the world, but there is optimism. As Rapid7 offices begin to open up to our hard-working team members around the globe, we...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Linux Linux_Kernel

Reproducer for CVE-2021-22555 as a container First, this roll...

CVE-2021-25318 rancher: API group not properly specified when creating Kubernetes RBAC resources

A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Rancher allows users in the cluster to modify resources they should not have access to. This issue affects: Rancher versions prior to 2.5.9 ; Rancher versions prior to 2.4.16...

CVE-2021-25740

A flaw was found in Kubernetes. This issue enables users to send network traffic to locations they would otherwise not have access to via a confused deputy attack...

PT-2021-3738

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kubernetes affected versions not specified Description A security issue exists in Kubernetes that could allow users to send network traffic to locations they would not normally have access to. This is due to a confused deputy attack. The issue...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.38 extras and security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.6.38 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of...

Home Download Photon OS User Documentation FAQ Security Advisories Related Information Lightwave - PHSA-2021-1.0-0413

An update of 'kubernetes' packages of Photon OS has been released...

Introducing InsightCloudSec

A little over a year ago, when DivvyCloud first combined forces with Rapid7, I wrote that we did it because of culture, technology alignment, and the opportunity to drive even greater innovation in cloud security. Those core values remain true, and so does something else. As more organizations...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.19 packages and security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.19 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a...

Kubernetes Used in Brute-Force Attacks Tied to Russia’s APT28

U.S. and U.K. authorities are warning that the APT28 advanced-threat actor APT – a.k.a. Fancy Bear or Strontium, among other names – has been using a Kubernetes cluster in a widespread campaign of brute-force password-spraying attacks against hundreds of government and private sector targets...

Beware password-spraying fancy bears

The NSA, FBI, and CISA, in cooperation with the UKs National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, have issued a report that describes in detail why, and how, they think that a Russian military unit is behind large-scale brute-force attacks on the cloud-IT resources of government and private sector compani...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.41 security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.5.41 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whic...

RHEL 7 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.41 (RHSA-2021:2431)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2431 advisory. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or privat...

Kubernetes: Authenticated kubernetes principal with restricted permissions can retrieve ingress-nginx serviceaccount token and secrets across all namespaces

Summary: Retrieving ingress-nginx serviceaccount token ingress-nginx allows adding custom snippets of nginx configuration to Kubernetes ingress objects. These snippets can be applied to either the relevant location or server blocks with the following annotations, respectively...

NSA-CISA-NCSC-FBI Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian GRU Brute Force Campaign

The National Security Agency NSA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have released Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA: Russian GRU Conducting Global Brute Force Campaign to Compromise Enterpris...

[ASA-202107-3] istio: information disclosure

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202107-3 ========================================= Severity: Critical Date : 2021-07-01 CVE-ID : CVE-2021-34824 Package : istio Type : information disclosure Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2113 Summary ======= The package istio before versi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.462 bug fix and security update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

Privilege Escalation

github.com/istio/istio is vulnerable to privilege escalation. It does not prevent loading of private keys and certificates from Kubernetes secrets via the credentialName configuration...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package kubernetes version 1.20.8-alt1

June 30, 2021 Mikhail Gordeev 1.20.8-alt1 - 1.20.8 - Fixes: CVE-2021-25737...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise security and bug fix update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.6.36 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...