Impact

Skipper prior to version v0.13.236 is vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF). An attacker can exploit a vulnerable version of proxy to access the internal metadata server or other unauthenticated URLs by adding an specific header (X-Skipper-Proxy) to the http request.

Patches The problem was patched in version https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.13.237. Users need to upgrade to skipper >=v0.13.237.

Workarounds

Use dropRequestHeader("X-Skipper-Proxy") filter

References

https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.13.237

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Impact

When running Skipper as an Ingress controller, users with permissions to create an Ingress and a Service of type ExternalName can create routes that enable them to use Skipper's network access to reach internal services.

Patches

https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.24.0 disables Kubernetes ExternalName by default.

Workarounds

Developers can allow list targets of an ExternalName by using -kubernetes-only-allowed-external-names=true and allow list via regular expressions -kubernetes-allowed-external-name '^[a-z][a-z0-9-.]+[.].allowed.example$'

References

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#externalname

Impact

Arbitrary code execution through lua filters.

The default skipper configuration before v0.23 was -lua-sources=inline,file. The problem starts if untrusted users can create lua filters, because of -lua-sources=inline , for example through a Kubernetes Ingress resource. The configuration inline allows these user to create a script that is able to read the filesystem accessible to the skipper process and if the user has access to read the logs they an read skipper secrets.

Kubernetes example (vulnerability is not limited to Kubernetes) lua function request(ctx, params) local file = io.open('/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token', 'r') if file then local token = file:read('all') file:close() error('[EXFIL] ' .. token) -- Exfiltrate via error logs end end

Patches

https://github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.23.0 disables Lua by default.

Workarounds

You can reduce support of how you can pass lua filter script data by providing config for lua sources https://opensource.zalando.com/skipper/reference/scripts/#enable-and-disable-lua-sources. For example -lua-sources=file will only be exploitable if the attacker can create a lua script file on the target system.

References

https://opensource.zalando.com/skipper/reference/scripts/#enable-and-disable-lua-sources

In Zalando Skipper before 0.13.218, a query predicate could be bypassed via a prepared request.