{"id":181343,"date":"2024-01-25T02:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/google-kubernetes-misconfig-lets-any-gmail-account-control-your-clusters"},"modified":"2024-01-25T02:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:23:42","slug":"google-kubernetes-misconfig-lets-any-gmail-account-control-your-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/google-kubernetes-misconfig-lets-any-gmail-account-control-your-clusters","title":{"rendered":"Google Kubernetes Misconfig Lets Any Gmail Account Control Your Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-kubernetes-misconfig-lets-any-gmail-account-control-your-clusters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole impacting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that could be potentially exploited by threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The critical shortcoming has been codenamed <strong>Sys: All<\/strong> by cloud security firm Orca. As many as 250,000 active GKE clusters in the wild are estimated to be susceptible to the attack vector.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/orca.security\/resources\/blog\/sys-all-google-kubernetes-engine-risk-example\/\">report<\/a> shared with The Hacker News, security researcher Ofir Yakobi said it \u201cstems from a likely widespread misconception that the <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/kubernetes-engine\/docs\/how-to\/role-based-access-control\">system: authenticated group<\/a> in Google Kubernetes Engine includes only verified and deterministic identities, whereas in fact, it includes any Google authenticated account (even outside the organization).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole impacting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that could be potentially exploited by threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster. The critical shortcoming has been codenamed Sys: All by cloud security firm Orca. As many as 250,000 active GKE clusters in the wild are estimated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}