Protect Your Container Images and CI/CD Pipeline

Ever wonder if the container images you provide to customers have been checked for vulnerabilities, malware, and other malicious threats? Read this article on how to easily and quickly set up protection for your container images and CI/CD pipeline...

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The WHERE

“Wherever I go, there I am” -Security I recently had a discussion with a large organization that had a few workloads in multiple clouds while assembling a cloud security focused team to build out their security policy moving forward. It’s one of my favorite conversations to have since I’m not jus...

This Week in Security News: 5 Reasons to Move Your Endpoint Security to the Cloud Now and ICEBUCKET Group Mimics Smart TVs to Steal Ad Money

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, learn about 5 reasons your organization should consider moving to a cloud managed solution. Also, read about a massive online fraud operatio...

Qualys Response to Rapid7’s False Claims on VMDR

As remote working is becoming the need of the hour, IT and Security teams are working tirelessly to ensure continuity of services and deliver on all aspects of the business. To help our customers in these challenging times, we launched a 60-day no-cost ‘Remote Endpoint Protection’ service for...

What do serverless compute platforms mean for security?

By Kyle Klassen Product Manager - Cloud Native Application Security at Trend Micro Containers provide many great benefits to organizations - they’re lightweight, flexible, add consistency across different environments and scale easily. One of the characteristics of containers is that they run in...

Important: container-tools:1.0 security update

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc. Security Fixes: QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcpemu CVE-2020-7039 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score,...

Design/Logic Flaw

An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the container openshift/mariadb-apb, affecting versions before the following 4.3.5, 4.2.21, 4.1.37, and 3.11.188-4 . An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their...

CVE-2019-19348

An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the container openshift/apb-base, affecting versions before the following 4.3.5, 4.2.21, 4.1.37, and 3.11.188-4. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their...

CVE-2019-19346

The CVE-2019-19346 entry describes an insecure modification vulnerability in the container component openshift/mariadb-apb that allows modification of /etc/passwd, enabling privilege escalation for an attacker with container access. Affected releases include versions before 4.3.5, 4.2.21, 4.1.37,...

CVE-2020-10695

An insecure modification flaw in the /etc/passwd file was found in the redhat-sso-7 container. An attacker with access to the container can use this flaw to modify the /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges...

CVE-2019-19355

An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the openshift/ocp-release-operator-sdk. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/ansible-operator-container as...

CVE-2020-1706

It has been found that in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and openshift-enterprise versions 4.1 up to, including 4.3, multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to...

CVE-2020-1706

CVE-2020-1706 affects the OpenShift appliance component openshift-apb-tools-container used in OpenShift Enterprise 3.11 and 4.1–4.3. A container can alter file permissions on /etc/passwd to make it modifiable by non-root users, enabling an attacker with container access to add a user and escalate...

CVE-2020-1742

An insecure modification vulnerability flaw was found in containers using nmstate/kubernetes-nmstate-handler. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges...

CVE-2020-1726

CVE-2020-1726 describes a Podman flaw where containers created with an attached volume could overwrite files in the volume, even when mounted read-only. The issue, introduced in version 1.6.0, occurs when running a malicious container or image whose volume is used for the first time, enabling tar...

LibMiner: Container-Based Cryptocurrency Miner Targeting Unprotected Redis Servers

Qualys is actively tracking threats which target containers. In our recent analysis, we have identified a few docker instances executing a malware which we term as “LibMiner”. This malware has the capability to deploy and execute Cryptominer. It uses a unique technique for lateral movement across...

CVE-2019-18837

CVE-2019-18837 affects crun prior to 0.10.5. A crafted image can bypass target-symlink checks, granting access to files outside the container via the codepaths in libcrun/linux.c and libcrun/chroot_realpath.c. The vulnerability has multiple vendor/advisory references (Red Hat, Debian, OSV, CVE li...

CVE-2019-18837

An issue was discovered in crun before 0.10.5. With a crafted image, it doesn't correctly check whether a target is a symlink, resulting in access to files outside of the container. This occurs in libcrun/linux.c and libcrun/chrootrealpath.c...

Graboid: Revenge of the Worms

This week saw news of self-propagating worms in the container landscape to perform unsanctioned computation tasks such as cryptojacking. This blog post is intended for Qualys customers and partners to understand how such container attacks work, provide security best practice recommendations &...

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost. The post Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security appeared first on Wallarm Blog...