README.md

Kubernetes Goat

✨ The Kubernetes Goat is designed to be an intentionally vulnerable cluster environment to learn and practice Kubernetes security 🚀

🙌 Refer to https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat for the guide 📖

⚙️ Setting up Kubernetes Goat

• Ensure you have admin access to the Kubernetes cluster and installed kubectl. Refer to the docs for installation
• Ensure you have the helm package manager installed. Refer to the docs for installation
• To set up the Kubernetes Goat resources in your cluster, run the following commands

git clone https://github.com/madhuakula/kubernetes-goat.git
cd kubernetes-goat
bash setup-kubernetes-goat.sh

• Ensure the pods are running before running the access script

kubectl get pods

• Access the Kubernetes Goat by exposing the resources to the local system (port-forward) by the following command

bash access-kubernetes-goat.sh

• Then navigate to http://127.0.0.1:1234

Refer to https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat/docs/how-to-run for setting up Kubernetes Goat in various environments like GKE, EKS, AKS, K3S, KIND, etc.

🏆 Scenarios

1. Sensitive keys in codebases
2. DIND (docker-in-docker) exploitation
3. SSRF in the Kubernetes (K8S) world
4. Container escape to the host system
5. Docker CIS benchmarks analysis
6. Kubernetes CIS benchmarks analysis
7. Attacking private registry
8. NodePort exposed services
9. Helm v2 tiller to PwN the cluster - [Deprecated]
10. Analyzing crypto miner container
11. Kubernetes namespaces bypass
12. Gaining environment information
13. DoS the Memory/CPU resources
14. Hacker container preview
15. Hidden in layers
16. RBAC least privileges misconfiguration
17. KubeAudit - Audit Kubernetes clusters
18. Falco - Runtime security monitoring & detection
19. Popeye - A Kubernetes cluster sanitizer
20. Secure network boundaries using NSP

📖 Documentation Guide

Here is the detailed step by step documentation guide for learning and playing around with Kubernetes Goat 🎉

Reference: https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat

⚠️ Disclaimer

Kubernetes Goat has intentionally created vulnerabilities, applications, and configurations to attack and gain access to your cluster and workloads. Please DO NOT run alongside your production environments and infrastructure. So we highly recommend running this in a safe and isolated environment.

Kubernetes Goat is used for educational purposes only, do not test or apply these attacks on any systems without permission. Kubernetes Goat comes with absolutely no warranties, by using it you take full responsibility for all the outcomes.

📝 License

MIT

✨ Acknowledgements

Thanks go to these wonderful people 🎉

madhuakula	apvarun	ant4g0nist	phpsystems	mkcn	macagr
rewanthtammana	avicoder	NF997	smoyer64	wurstbrot	podjackel
adamhurm	0xCardinal