KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

From data theft to privilege escalation in the Kubernetes cluster, you don't want to be the one telling your boss that your GitOps system has been compromised. This talk covers the security of GitOps tools, highlighting common misconfiguration pitfalls and how to avoid them. We will share the story of CVE-2024-31989, a critical vulnerability we discovered in the popular tool Argo. When installed with the default configuration, this vulnerability allowed privilege escalation from any access point to the cluster (such as a webshell) to complete cluster takeover. We will discuss common insecure configurations like this and provide examples from popular open-source projects to explain how your organization can protect itself from these risks. Attendees will receive a guide and practical tools to protect their GitOps systems against such threats.