Security

What is Seccomp? A large number of system calls are exposed to every userland process with many of them going unused for the entire lifetime of the process. A certain subset of userland applications benefit by having a reduced set of available system calls. The resulting set reduces the total kernel surface exposed to the application. System call filtering is meant for use with those applications. Seccomp filtering provides a means for a process to specify a filter for incoming system calls. ...

A volume mount CVE was discovered in Kubernetes 1.9 and older which allowed access to node file system using emptyDir volume mount using subpath. The official description goes as follows: In Kubernetes versions 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x and prior to versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9 and 1.9.4 containers using subpath volume mounts with any volume type (including non-privileged pods, subject to file permissions) can access files/directories outside of the volume, including the host’s filesystem. ...

I enabled PodSecurityPolicy on a minikube cluster by appending PodSecurityPolicy to the apiserver flag in minikube like this: --extra-config=apiserver.enable-admission-plugins=Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,\ LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,\ NodeRestriction,MutatingAdmissionWebhook,ValidatingAdmissionWebhook,\ ResourceQuota,PodSecurityPolicy Ideally when you have PSP enabled and if you don’t define any PSP and authorize it with right RBAC no pod will start in the cluster. But what I saw was that there were some pods still running in kube-system namespace. $ kubectl -n kube-system get pods NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE coredns-576cbf47c7-g2t8v 1/1 Running 4 5d11h etcd-minikube 1/1 Running 2 5d11h heapster-bn5xp 1/1 Running 2 5d11h influxdb-grafana-qzpv4 2/2 Running 4 5d11h kube-addon-manager-minikube 1/1 Running 2 5d11h kube-controller-manager-minikube 1/1 Running 1 4d20h kube-scheduler-minikube 1/1 Running 2 5d11h kubernetes-dashboard-5bb6f7c8c6-9d564 1/1 Running 8 5d11h storage-provisioner 1/1 Running 7 5d11h Which got me thinking what is wrong with the way PSPs work. So if you look closely only two pods are scheduled by a deployment. ...

It’s always a hassle creating certificates and lot of technical jargons involved. This can be simplified, using mkcert. Install by following one of the steps mentioned in the docs. Once installed just run: $ mkcert -install Created a new local CA at "/home/hummer/.local/share/mkcert" 💥 [sudo] password for hummer: The local CA is now installed in the system trust store! ⚡ The local CA is now installed in the Firefox and/or Chrome/Chromium trust store (requires browser restart)! 🦊 This has installed the local CA. Now all you need to do is create a new certificate. ...