Rory McCune

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Containers, Security, Kubernetes, Hillwalking
Personal Sitehttps://www.mccune.org.uk/
Bloghttps://raesene.github.io/
Container Security Sitehttps://www.container-security.site
GitHubhttps://github.com/raesene/
https://bumsrake.de/ - This is an amusing way to do vuln. disclosure
BUMSRAKETE™ — The Most Beautiful, Most Tremendous FreeBSD Vulnerability In The History Of Computing. BELIEVE ME.

BUMSRAKETE is a HUGE, TREMENDOUS, MANY-PEOPLE-ARE-SAYING FreeBSD kTLS-RX page-cache write primitive. The BEST primitive. Some say the best ever.

Monitor LLM routing with the Kubernetes Inference Extension | Datadog #devopsish https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/llm-routing-kubernetes-inference-extension/
@shodan nice, thanks for that!

@shodan oh cool! not sure if I'm querying wrong but that doesn't seem to work for me at the moment.

Most kubernetes API servers put a SAN of "kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local" in their API server cert (you can see an example https://beta.shodan.io/host/136.116.232.158),

but if I search for that as a hostname https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hostname%3A%22kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local%22

I'm getting 0 results?

@shodan any plans to allow searching by the Subject Alternative Name field in X.509 certificates? On certain systems (e.g. Kubernetes) there's quite a lot of internal information leakage via that field, and it'd be interesting to be able to run an analysis on it.
“Bundler 4.0.13 introduces cooldown, a time-based filter that refuses to resolve to a version until it has been public for at least N days. Releases too new to have been scrutinized are passed over in favor of ones that have aged past the window.” — https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html
Cool down before you install: give new gems a few days to be vetted

Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. ...

RubyGems Blog

It's always been known that containers don't fully contain, but the ease with which attackers can execute container breakout attacks now, using LLM backed tooling, should prompt people to re-evaluate where they can rely on container isolation.

Some more thoughts and a concrete example here https://raesene.github.io/blog/2026/06/03/do-containers-still-contain/

Do containers still contain?

If you're seeing some new "old" vulnerabilities show up in vulnerability scans of Kubernetes clusters, it's based on some work done by the project to correct some CVE records for issues that have no patch available.

There's a blog on the topic https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/05/26/reconciling-unfixed-kubernetes-cves/ which explains why and provides some of the historical context.

If you're interested in the technical details of these vulnerabilities and some ideas on whether they're relevant for your clusters, and what to do if they are, there's a series of technical deep-dives here https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/?s=unpatchable

Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs

The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the official Kubernetes CVE Feed, we have identified some discrepancies. CVE records for a few older, unfixed issues incorrectly include a fixed version field. The Kubernetes Security Response Committee (SRC) will correct the affected CVE records on June 1, 2026. This may result in vulnerability scanners identifying these vulnerabilities in places where they were previously not detected.

Kubernetes
@wiggitywhitney so it's not a test of who's old enough to recognize the screengrab? :P

Here's the last one in our series of blogs on the unpatchable vulnerabilities of #Kubernetes, with CVE-2021-25740

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/unpatchable-kubernetes-vulnerabilities-cve-2021-25740/

Unpatchable Vulnerabilities of Kubernetes: CVE-2021-25740 | Datadog Security Labs

A look at how Kubernetes CVE-2021-25740 allows users with EndpointSlice access to redirect traffic via shared ingress and load balancer services.