awesome-container-security
A collection of container related security resources
- Identify vulnerabilities in running containers, images, hosts and repositories
- Static image analysis tool
- The "War and Peace" of container security
- Department of commerce guidance on container security
- NIST guidance on reducing software vulnerabilities
- NIST security content automation protocol
- Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) - Goes along with the SCAP link above for specifying a security template that containers should conform to
- Utility from CoreOS for automated vulnerability analysis for containers
- Clair: The Container Image Security Analyzer (by Joey Schorr & Quentin Machu) - Presentation about the Clair platform
- A more polished presentation of Clair at CoreOS Fest 2016
- Utility for aiding in compliance checks against a container
- Automated security profiling for Docker image
- drydock - Inspired by docker-bench-security with the ability to apply custom security profiles
- Docker bench security - One of the first security linting utility for Docker
- Introduction
- Docker image building framework
- Packer builds Docker containers without the use of Dockerfiles. By not using Dockerfiles, Packer is able to provision containers with portable scripts or configuration management systems that are not tied to Docker in any way. It also has a simple mental model: you provision containers much the same way you provision a normal virtualized or dedicated server.
- A toolkit for building custom minimal, immutable Linux distributions
- An open-source API to audit and govern your software supply chain
- Python library that extends docker build. It's part of the RedHat Atomic project so its rather opinionated
- A series of exercises that provide a deep dive into the internals of containers. Also has a good SELinux training component
- Free image scanning service with a commercial offering similar to Docker Cloud
- anchore-cli
- Specialized CVE scanner
- Framework for peering inside docker images. Useful for rolling your own image scanning system
- Black Duck Software
- Tenable - Includes FlawCheck
- GrSecurity - A collection of image hardening tools
- Aqua - Full lifecycle container security management platform
- Source to deployment framework. An alternative to Kubernetes and Spinnaker. I include it here because it implements a concept of trusted images and dependency management
- Project Atomic - RedHat's complete container solution with strong built-in security
- Docker Cloud - Continuous scanning of images along with a trust mechanism
- Associating Amazon IAM roles to pods
- Also for associating Amazon IAM roles to pods
- Comprehensive guide from Google engineers on securing and isolating containers
- User-space kernel designed to provide better isolation/sandboxing of containers
- Network policy enforcement based on eBPF
- Cilium - Container Security and Networking Using BPF and XDP - Thomas Graf, Covalent - Presentation of Cilium by its creator
- bSides SF 2017 talk about container monitoring at Netflix using eBPF
- Security enforcement for Flannel SDN
- Apply Amazon Identity Management roles to Kubernetes Pods
- Sidecar and security enforcement system used at Lyft
- Network policy enforcement
- Project
- Realtime metrics gathering across the cluster
- An exploration of covert channels
- Contains an interesting point about how contains that share network namespaces can snoop on eachother's traffic
- Containers are able to send raw ethernet frames to other containers with inter-container communication disabled
- StakRox - Container security solution with adaptive threat protection
- NeuVector - Continuous network security
- TwistLock - Network activity profiling
- AppArmor profile generator for Docker containers
- A gentle introduction to Security Enhanced Linux
- Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox. Also works with GUI apps
- A handy list of capabilities that are enabled by default in Docker
- An SELinux deep dive
- Blog post about figuring out what capabilities a container needs
- Spoiler, its using SELinux
- Open source container security monitoring
- Technical discussion
- WTF, My Container Just Spawned a Shell - Jorge Salamero Sanz, Sysdig
- Bills itself as an adversary resistant computing platform. Under the hood the idea is to run containers in user space
- An exercise that also takes you through the nitty gritty details of capabilities management
- From the intro: "We’ve been tracking an organized attack campaign that targets misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports. This persistent campaign has been going on for months, with thousands of attempts taking place nearly on a daily basis."
- Post exploitation framework
- CVE-2017-5123
- Privledge escalation using the waitid syscall
- Detailed write-up
- This isn't an exploit but it allows user to access the host VM if run in privileged mode
- CVE-2016-5195
- Privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel
- Proof of concept
- Proof of concept collection
- Dirty COW and why lying is bad even if you are the Linux kernel
- List of known security vulnerabilities for Docker
- Outlines an interesting spear-phishing attack on image maintainers
- Image scanning system with a red-team focus of exploitation
- A case study of a vulnerable private registry
- Capturing exploit attempts by emulating a Wordpress box
- Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled
- Fairly old but a great idea for platform to build honeypots
- An extension of the helpful cattle and pets analogy
- One of the many cheat sheets in the OWASP series, providing insight into the security of various components and capabilities of Kubernetes
- The author presents the intreaging notion of applying the microservices approach to containers where you divide an application apart by capabilities
- Awesome Object Capabilities - A language-level implementation of the capability based sandboxing methodology
- Linux port of Capsicum related to this LWN post
- Securing the image pipeline from creation to delivery
- A security model to match the deployment model of many orchestration utilities
- Container performance analysis at Netflix. This contains similar material as the bSides talk listed above with
- Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix - Also provides insight into container monitoring, logging, and security at Netflix.
- Chief Systems Architect Sasi Kannappan describes how Docker is used at Visa
- Collection of resources on hardening your Docker daemon
- Balancing moving fast and breaking things with securing against vulnerabilities
- Great presentation on sandboxing containers