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hughwyesterday at 10:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

Should I rush to Lambda or ECS and turn off all my containers sharing a host with who the hell knows?


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PhilipRomantoday at 7:46 AM

AFAIK Lambda and everything else will use micro-VMs. No serious company would use a shared kernel design for workloads in different security contexts. (Personally I wouldn't even use the same hardware host, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made)

arcfourtoday at 7:31 AM

Firecracker is extremely hardened, so I wouldn't worry about Lambda. As for ECS, getting root doesn't necessarily mean you have a container escape. I think you could escape containers with this exploit, but you would need a different payload than what's published. I could be wrong though.

I would assume AWS is pretty on the ball when it comes to handling stuff like this if they didn't have other defenses or mitigations in place already.

tkeltoday at 12:52 AM

Like others have said, this will get you root inside the container. It isn't a container escape. File/volume mounts shared across containers would be vulnerable.