Beyond the surface - Exploring attacker persistence strategies in Kubernetes

I’ve been doing a talk on Kubernetes post-exploitation for a while now and one of requests has been for a blog post to refer back to, which I’m finally getting around to doing now!

Bitnami Deprecation

Update Looks like Bitnami decided to take some more time over this details here and have some 1-day brown outs before removing the repos on Sept 29.

Am I Still Contained?

This exploration started, as many do, with “huh that’s odd”. Specifically I was looking at the output of amicontained around filtered syscalls.

Kubernetes Debug Profiles

I got a lesson today in the idea that it’s always worth re-visiting things you’ve used in the past to see how they’ve changed, as sometimes there will be cool new features!

Cap or no cap

I was looking at a Kubernetes issue the other day and it led me down a kind of interesting rabbit hole, so I thought it’d be worth sharing as I learned a couple of things.

CVE-2025-1767 - Another gitrepo issue

There’s a new Kubernetes security vulnerability that’s just been disclosed and I thought it was worth taking a look at it, as there’s a couple of interesting aspects to it. CVE-2025-1767 exists in the gitRepo volume type and can allow users who can create pods with gitRepo volumes to get access to any other git repository on the node where the pod is deployed. This is the second recent CVE related to gitRepo volumes, I covered the last one here

Exploring the Kubernetes API Server Proxy

For my first post of the year I thought it’d be interesting to look at a lesser known feature of the Kubernetes API server which has some interesting security implications.

When is read-only not read-only?

Bit of a digression from the network series today, to discuss something I just saw in passing which is an interesting example of a possible sharp corner/foot gun in Kubernetes RBAC.

Exploring A Basic Kubernetes Network Plugin

In my last blog I took a look at some of the different IP addresses that get assigned in a standard Kubernetes cluster, but an obvious follow-on question is, how do pods get those IP addresses?, and to answer that question we need to talk about network plugins.

The Many IP Addresses of Kubernetes

When getting to grips with Kubernetes one of the more complex concepts to understand is … all the IP addresses! Even looking at a simple cluster setup, you’ll get addresses in multiple different ranges. So this is a quick post to walk through where they’re coming from and what they’re used for.