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Do you have links pointing at what docker containers leak from a security PoV ?

• riskable 11y ago
  This largely depends on how you're implementing them. If you're using Kubernetes, for example, all Docker containers being managed by Kubernetes can talk to each other without restrictions. From each container's perspective they're part of a big, flat network with no firewalls between them. So if you have a container running the database for client A that means that when client B spins up their little malicious container they can directly connect to client A's DB. That's one way that Docker containers can "leak" (sort of). Another way is that the filesystem for running containers is directly accessible from outside the container. That means that anyone with the power to start/stop containers has the power to read the filesystems for all other containers. There used to be a problem with, "root inside the container is the same as root outside the container" but that was fixed with Docker 1.9 via the new UID mapping feature. So the filesystem and processes running as UID 0 inside the container will actually be some high UID in the parent OS. So unless you're running Red Hat's version of Docker (which is currently hard set to be Docker 1.8!) you can upgrade and solve that problem pretty quickly with a few tweaks.