Researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany published a study revealing that tens of thousands of container images hosted on Docker Hub contain confidential secrets, exposing software, online platforms, and users to a massive attack surface.
Isn’t it about people pushing their keys to public? I feel like this doesn’t affect the pulling side
It’s actually how people build their images, in which some include sensitive data (when they should definitely not). It’s the same problem as exposed S3 buckets actually, nothing wrong with docker in itself.
aws s3 sync s3://barrys-nudes/ .
Have you seen the instructions on how to build the Lemmy images? That’s some crazy shit …
Actually yes, I had a look at them since i wanted to write HelmCharts for the community. That’s also where the community can step up, it can only be better 😊
I actually started looking into creating own Docker images because of how bad Lemmy’s Docker instructions are. I’m not even close to anything usable, though …
I understand! If you need help to do that (or someone to contribute), hit me up ! 😄
I guess it depends, if it’s a secret in use for the image, an attacker might use it to attack a pulled instance if the user deploying it didn’t change the secret. Kind of like an unchanged initial password.