Black Hat Europe 2022 Arsenal - Kubernetes Goat: Interactive Kubernetes Security Learning Playground
Abstract
Kubernetes Goat is a “vulnerable by design” Kubernetes Cluster environment to practice and learn about Kubernetes Security. It has step by step detailed guide and digital book on how to get started with Kubernetes Goat by exploring different vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Cluster and Containerized environments. Also, it has scenarios taken from the real-world vulnerabilities and maps the Kubernetes Goat scenarios. The complete documentation and instruction to practice Kubernetes Security for performing security assessments, pentesting, and in general Kubernetes Security. As a defender you will see how we can learn these attacks, misconfigurations to understand and improve your cloud-native infrastructure security posture.
Some of the high-level scenarios include, but are not limited to
- Sensitive keys in code-bases
- DIND (docker-in-docker) exploitation
- SSRF in K8S world
- Container escape to access host system
- Docker CIS Benchmarks analysis
- Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks analysis
- Attacking private registry
- NodePort exposed services
- Helm v2 tiller to PwN the cluster
- Analysing crypto miner container
- Kubernetes Namespaces bypass
- Gaining environment information
- DoS the memory/CPU resources
- Hacker Container preview
- Hidden in layers
- RBAC Least Privileges Misconfiguration
- KubeAudit - Audit Kubernetes Clusters
- Sysdig Falco - Runtime Security Monitoring & Detection
- Popeye - A Kubernetes Cluster Sanitizer
- Secure network boundaries using NSP
Madhu Akula
Never Ending Learner!
Madhu Akula is a pragmatic security leader and creator of Kubernetes Goat, an intentionally vulnerable by design Kubernetes Cluster to learn and practice Kubernetes Security. Also published author and cloud native security researcher with an extensive experience. Also he is an active member of the international security, devops and cloud native communities (null, DevSecOps, AllDayDevOps, AWS, CNCF, USENIX, OWASP, etc). Holds industry certifications like OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist), etc. Madhu frequently speaks and runs training sessions at security events and conferences around the world including DEFCON (24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30), BlackHat (2018, 19, 21, 22 & 23), USENIX LISA (2018, 19 & 21), SANS Cloud Security Summit 2021 & 2022, O’Reilly Velocity EU 2019, GitHub Satellite 2020, Appsec EU (2018, 19, 22), All Day DevOps (2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22), DevSecCon (London, Singapore, Boston), DevOpsDays India, c0c0n(2017, 18 & 20), Nullcon (2018, 19, 21 & 22), SACON 2019, Serverless Summit, null and multiple others. His research has identified vulnerabilities in over 200+ companies and organisations including; Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, eBay, AT&T, WordPress, NTOP and Adobe, etc and credited with multiple CVE’s, Acknowledgements and rewards. He is co-author of Security Automation with Ansible2 (ISBN-13: 978-1788394512), which is listed as a technical resource by Red Hat Ansible. He is the technical reviewer for Learn Kubernetes Security, Practical Ansible2 books by Packt Pub. Also won 1st prize for building Infrastructure Security Monitoring solution at InMobi flagship hackathon among 100+ engineering teams.