GitFlops: The dangers of terraform automation platforms

Terraform automation platforms streamline infrastructure management but also introduce security vulnerabilities when speculative plans are executed. Read how attackers can exploit Terraform lifecycle automation to gain unauthorized cloud access, compromising environments far beyond a single team's control. Learn about the attack vectors, including malicious provider plugins and external data sources, and discover essential mitigation strategies to safeguard your infrastructure.

Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation

With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

Agent hijacking: The true impact of prompt injection attacks

In this article, after a brief primer on agent architectures, we will review agent systems from two perspectives.

Repo Jacking: The Great Source-code Swindle

In this post, we explore a powerful, yet widely unknown attack vector which has emerged in the last couple of years known as ‘Repo Jacking’. During our research, we discovered the enormous potential to compromise software components with tens of millions of downloads across the Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and Composer (PHP package registry) ecosystems.

Breaking caches and bypassing Istio RBAC with HTTP response header injection

This post outlines what we believe to be novel attacks against HTTP application middleware based on the simple foundation of HTTP response header injection.

Call for action: Exploring vulnerabilities in Github Actions

In this blog post, we will provide an overview of GitHub Actions, examine various vulnerable scenarios with real-world examples, offer clear guidance on securely using error-prone features, and introduce an open source tool designed to scan configuration files and flag potential issues.

Leaky Vessels deep dive: Escaping from Docker one syscall at a time

Learn how Snyk security researchers uncovered the Leaky Vessels container breakout Docker vulnerabilities assigned CVE-2024-21626, CVE-2024-23652, CVE-2024-23651, and CVE-2024-23653.

Vulnerability: runc process.cwd and leaked fds container breakout (CVE-2024-21626)

CVE-2024-21626: Snyk has discovered an order of operations container breakout vulnerability in all versions of runc <=1.1.11, as used by the Docker engine, along with other containerization technologies such as Kubernetes.

Buildkit mount cache race: Build-time race condition container breakout (CVE-2024-23651)

Snyk has discovered a build-time race condition container breakout vulnerability in all versions of Buildkit <=v0.12.4, as used by the Docker engine.

Buildkit build-time container teardown arbitrary delete (CVE-2024-23652)

CVE-2024-23652: Snyk has discovered a container teardown arbitrary delete vulnerability in all versions of Buildkit <=v0.12.4, as used by the Docker engine.

Buildkit GRPC SecurityMode privilege check: Build-time container breakout (CVE-2024-23653)

Snyk has discovered a build-time container breakout vulnerability in all versions of Docker Buildkit <=v0.12.4, as used by the Docker engine (CVE-2024-23653)

SocketSleuth: Improving security testing for WebSocket applications

Today, we are proud to announce the beta version of SocketSleuth, our new Burp Suite extension for performing security testing against WebSocket-based applications. SocketSleuth was created out of our security research group to aid in our security research against applications that leverage WebSockets for communication.