* Add new json/webserver libs, embedded webserver
Add two new external libraries:
- nlohmann-json is a better json library that has stronger use of c++
features like type deduction, better conversion from stl structures,
etc. We'll use it to hold generic json objects instead of jsoncpp.
- civetweb is an embeddable webserver that will allow us to accept
posted json data.
New files webserver.{cpp,h} start an embedded webserver that listens for
POSTS on a configurable url and passes the json data to the falco
engine.
New falco config items are under webserver:
- enabled: true|false. Whether to start the embedded webserver or not.
- listen_port. Port that webserver listens on
- k8s_audit_endpoint: uri on which to accept POSTed k8s audit events.
(This commit doesn't compile entirely on its own, but we're grouping
these related changes into one commit for clarity).
* Don't use relative paths to find lua code
You can look directly below PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR.
* Reorganize compiler lua code
The lua compiler code is generic enough to work on more than just
sinsp-based rules, so move the parts of the compiler related to event
types and filterchecks out into a standalone lua file
sinsp_rule_utils.lua.
The checks for event types/filterchecks are now done from rule_loader,
and are dependent on a "source" attribute of the rule being
"sinsp". We'll be adding additional types of events next that come from
sources other than system calls.
* Manage separate syscall/k8s audit rulesets
Add the ability to manage separate sets of rules (syscall and
k8s_audit). Stop using the sinsp_evttype_filter object from the sysdig
repo, replacing it with falco_ruleset/falco_sinsp_ruleset from
ruleset.{cpp,h}. It has the same methods to add rules, associate them
with rulesets, and (for syscall) quickly find the relevant rules for a
given syscall/event type.
At the falco engine level, there are new parallel interfaces for both
types of rules (syscall and k8s_audit) to:
- add a rule: add_k8s_audit_filter/add_sinsp_filter
- match an event against rules, possibly returning a result:
process_sinsp_event/process_k8s_audit_event
At the rule loading level, the mechanics of creating filterchecks
objects is handled two factories (sinsp_filter_factory and
json_event_filter_factory), both of which are held by the engine.
* Handle multiple rule types when parsing rules
Modify the steps of parsing a rule's filter expression to handle
multiple types of rules. Notable changes:
- In the rule loader/ast traversal, pass a filter api object down,
which is passed back up in the lua parser api calls like nest(),
bool_op(), rel_expr(), etc.
- The filter api object is either the sinsp factory or k8s audit
factory, depending on the rule type.
- When the rule is complete, the complete filter is passed to the
engine using either add_sinsp_filter()/add_k8s_audit_filter().
* Add multiple output formatting types
Add support for multiple output formatters. Notable changes:
- The falco engine is passed along to falco_formats to gain access to
the engine's factories.
- When creating a formatter, the source of the rule is passed along
with the format string, which controls which kind of output formatter
is created.
Also clean up exception handling a bit so all lua callbacks catch all
exceptions and convert them into lua errors.
* Add support for json, k8s audit filter fields
With some corresponding changes in sysdig, you can now create general
purpose filter fields and events, which can be tied together with
nesting, expressions, and relational operators. The classes here
represent an instance of these fields devoted to generic json objects as
well as k8s audit events. Notable changes:
- json_event: holds a json object, used by all of the below
- json_event_filter_check: Has the ability to extract values out of a
json_event object and has the ability to define macros that associate
a field like "group.field" with a json pointer expression that
extracts a single property's value out of the json object. The basic
field definition also allows creating an index
e.g. group.field[index], where a std::function is responsible for
performing the indexing. This class has virtual void methods so it
must be overridden.
- jevt_filter_check: subclass of json_event_filter_check and defines
the following fields:
- jevt.time/jevt.rawtime: extracts the time from the underlying json object.
- jevt.value[<json pointer>]: general purpose way to extract any
json value out of the underlying object. <json pointer> is a json
pointer expression
- jevt.obj: Return the entire object, stringified.
- k8s_audit_filter_check: implements fields that extract values from
k8s audit events. Most of the implementation is in the form of macros
like ka.user.name, ka.uri, ka.target.name, etc. that just use json
pointers to extact the appropriate value from a k8s audit event. More
advanced fields like ka.uri.param, ka.req.container.image use
indexing to extract individual values out of maps or arrays.
- json_event_filter_factory: used by things like the lua parser api,
output formatter, etc to create the necessary objects and return
them.
- json_event_formatter: given a format string, create the necessary
fields that will be used to create a resolved string when given a
json_event object.
* Add ability to list fields
Similar to sysdig's -l option, add --list (<source>) to list the fields
supported by falco. With no source specified, will print all
fields. Source can be "syscall" for inspector fields e.g. what is
supported by sysdig, or "k8s_audit" to list fields supported only by the
k8s audit support in falco.
* Initial set of k8s audit rules
Add an initial set of k8s audit rules. They're broken into 3 classes of
rules:
- Suspicious activity: this includes things like:
- A disallowed k8s user performing an operation
- A disallowed container being used in a pod.
- A pod created with a privileged pod.
- A pod created with a sensitive mount.
- A pod using host networking
- Creating a NodePort Service
- A configmap containing private credentials
- A request being made by an unauthenticated user.
- Attach/exec to a pod. (We eventually want to also do privileged
pods, but that will require some state management that we don't
currently have).
- Creating a new namespace outside of an allowed set
- Creating a pod in either of the kube-system/kube-public namespaces
- Creating a serviceaccount in either of the kube-system/kube-public
namespaces
- Modifying any role starting with "system:"
- Creating a clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role
- Creating a role that wildcards verbs or resources
- Creating a role with writable permissions/pod exec permissions.
- Resource tracking. This includes noting when a deployment, service,
- configmap, cluster role, service account, etc are created or destroyed.
- Audit tracking: This tracks all audit events.
To support these rules, add macros/new indexing functions as needed to
support the required fields and ways to index the results.
* Add ability to read trace files of k8s audit evts
Expand the use of the -e flag to cover both .scap files containing
system calls as well as jsonl files containing k8s audit events:
If a trace file is specified, first try to read it using the
inspector. If that throws an exception, try to read the first line as
json. If both fail, return an error.
Based on the results of the open, the main loop either calls
do_inspect(), looping over system events, or
read_k8s_audit_trace_file(), reading each line as json and passing it to
the engine and outputs.
* Example showing how to enable k8s audit logs.
An example of how to enable k8s audit logging for minikube.
* Add unit tests for k8s audit support
Initial unit test support for k8s audit events. A new multiplex file
falco_k8s_audit_tests.yaml defines the tests. Traces (jsonl files) are
in trace_files/k8s_audit and new rules files are in
test/rules/k8s_audit.
Current test cases include:
- User outside allowed set
- Creating disallowed pod.
- Creating a pod explicitly on the allowed list
- Creating a pod w/ a privileged container (or second container), or a
pod with no privileged container.
- Creating a pod w/ a sensitive mount container (or second container), or a
pod with no sensitive mount.
- Cases for a trace w/o the relevant property + the container being
trusted, and hostnetwork tests.
- Tests that create a Service w/ and w/o a NodePort type.
- Tests for configmaps: tries each disallowed string, ensuring each is
detected, and the other has a configmap with no disallowed string,
ensuring it is not detected.
- The anonymous user creating a namespace.
- Tests for all kactivity rules e.g. those that create/delete
resources as compared to suspicious activity.
- Exec/Attach to Pod
- Creating a namespace outside of an allowed set
- Creating a pod/serviceaccount in kube-system/kube-public namespaces
- Deleting/modifying a system cluster role
- Creating a binding to the cluster-admin role
- Creating a cluster role binding that wildcards verbs or resources
- Creating a cluster role with write/pod exec privileges
* Don't manually install gcc 4.8
gcc 4.8 should already be installed by default on the vm we use for
travis.
* Use correct copyright years.
Also include the start year.
* Improve copyright notices.
Use the proper start year instead of just 2018.
Add the right owner Draios dba Sysdig.
Add copyright notices to some files that were missing them.
* Add ability to read rules files from directories
When the argument to -r <path> or an entry in falco.yaml's rules_file
list is a directory, read all files in the directory and add them to the
rules file list. The files in the directory are sorted alphabetically
before being added to the list.
The installed falco adds directories /etc/falco/rules.available and
/etc/falco/rules.d and moves /etc/falco/application_rules.yaml to
/etc/falco/rules.available. /etc/falco/rules.d is empty, but the idea is
that admins can symlink to /etc/falco/rules.available for applications
they want to enable.
This will make it easier to add application-specific rulesets that
admins can opt-in to.
* Unit test for reading rules from directory
Copy the rules/trace file from the test multiple_rules to a new test
rules_directory. The rules files are in rules/rules_dir/{000,001}*.yaml,
and the test uses a rules_file argument of rules_dir. Ensure that the
same events are detected.
* Let supervisor write more generally below /etc
* Let perl+plesk scripts run shells/write below etc
* Allow spaces after some cmdlines
* Add additional shell spawner.
* Add addl package mgmt binaries.
* Add addl cases for java + jenkins
Addl jar files to consider.
* Add addl jenkins-related cmdlines
Mostly related to node scripts run by jenkins
* Let python running some mesos tasks spawn shells
In this case marathon run by python
* Let ucf write below etc
Only below /etc/gconf for now.
* Let dpkg-reconfigur indirectly write below /etc
It may run programs that modify files below /etc
* Add files/dirs/prefixes for writes below root
Build a set of acceptable files/dirs/prefixes for writes below
/root. Mostly triggered by apps that run directly as root.
* Add addl shell spawn binaries.
* Also let java + sbt spawn shells in containers
Not seen only at host level
* Make sure the file below etc is /etc/
Make sure the file below /etc is really below the directory etc aka
/etc/xxx. Otherwise it would match a file /etcfoo.
* Let rancher healthcheck spawn shells
The name healthcheck is relatively innocuous so also look at the parent
process.
* Add addl shell container shell spawn binaries
* Add addl x2go binaries
* Let rabbitq write its config files
* Let rook write below /etc
toolbox.sh is fairly generic so add a condition based on the image name.
* Let consul-template spawn shells
* Add rook/toolbox as a trusted container
Their github pages recommend running privileged.
* Add addl mail binary that can setuid
* Let plesk autoinstaller spawn shells
The name autoinstaller is fairly generic so also look at the parent.
* Let php handlers write its config
* Let addl pkg-* binary write to /etc indirectly
* Add additional shell spawning binaries.
* Add ability to specify user trusted containers
New macro user_trusted_containers allows a user-provided set of
containers that are trusted and are allowed to run privileged.
* If npm runs node, let node spawn shells
* Let python run airflow via a shell.
* Add addl passenger commandlines (for shells)
* Add addl ways datadog can be run
* Let find run shells in containers.
* Add rpmq as a rpm binary
* Let httpd write below /etc/httpd/
* Let awstats/sa-update spawn shells
* Add container entrypoint as a shell
Some images have an extra shell level for image entrypoints.
* Add an additional jenkins commandline
* Let mysql write its config
* Let openvpn write its config
* Add addl root dirs/files
Also move /root/.java to be a general prefix.
* Let mysql_upgrade/opkg-cl spawn shells
* Allow login to perform dns lookups
With run with -h <host> to specify a remote host, some versions of login
will do a dns lookup to try to resolve the host.
* Let consul-template write haproxy config.
* Also let mysql indirectly edit its config
It might spawn a program to edit the config in addition to directly.
* Allow certain sed temp files below /etc/
* Allow debian binaries to indirectly write to /etc
They may spawn programs like sed, touch, etc to change files below /etc.
* Add additional root file
* Let rancher healthcheck be run more indirectly
The grandparent as well as parent of healthcheck can be tini.
* Add more cases for haproxy writing config
Allow more files as well as more scripts to update the config.
* Let vmtoolsd spawn shells on the host
* Add an additional innocuous entrypoint shell
* Let peer-finder (mongodb) spawn shells
* Split application rules to separate file.
Move the contents of application rules, which have never been enabled by
default, to a separate file. It's only installed in the mail falco packages.
* Add more build-related command lines
* Let perl running openresty spawn shells
* Let countly write nginx config
* Let confd spawn shells
* Also let aws spawn shells in containers.
These changes allow for a local rules file that will be preserved across
upgrades and allows the main rules file to be overwritten across upgrades.
- Move all config/rules files below /etc/falco/
- Add a "local rules" file /etc/falco/falco_rules.local.yaml. The intent
is that it contains modifications/deltas to the main rules file
/etc/falco/falco_rules.yaml. The main falco_rules.yaml should be
treated as immutable.
- All config files are flagged so they are not overwritten on upgrade.
- Change the handling of the config item "rules_file" in falco.yaml to
allow a list of files. By default, this list contains:
[/etc/falco/falco_rules.yaml, /etc/falco/falco_rules.local.yaml].
Also change rpm/debian packaging to ensure that the above files are
preserved across upgrades:
- Use relative paths for share/bin dirs. This ensures that when packaged
as rpms they won't be flagged as config files.
- Add CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to FALCO_ENGINE_LUA_DIR now that it's relative.
- In debian packaging, flag
/etc/falco/{falco.yaml,falco_rules.yaml,falco_rules.local.yaml} as
conffiles. That way they are preserved across upgrades if modified.
- In rpm packaging when using cmake, any files installed with an
absolute path are automatically flagged as %config. The only files
directly installed are now the config files, so that addresses the problem.
Add CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to lua dir.
New variable FALCO_RULES_DEST_FILENAME allows the rules file to be
installed with a different filename. Not set in the falco repo, but in
the agent repo it's installed as falco_rules.default.yaml.
Move the c++ and lua code implementing falco engine/falco common to its
own directory userspace/engine. It's compiled as a static library
libfalco_engine.a, and has its own CMakeLists.txt so it can be included
by other projects.
The engine's CMakeLists.txt has a add_subdirectory for the falco rules
directory, so including the engine also builds the rules.
The variables you need to set to use the engine's CMakeLists.txt are:
- CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: the root directory below which everything is
installed.
- FALCO_ETC_DIR: where to install the rules file.
- FALCO_SHARE_DIR: where to install lua code, relative to the
- install/package root.
- LUAJIT_INCLUDE: where to find header files for lua.
- FALCO_SINSP_LIBRARY: the library containing sinsp code. It will be
- considered a dependency of the engine.
- LPEG_LIB/LYAML_LIB/LIBYAML_LIB: locations for third-party libraries.
- FALCO_COMPONENT: if set, will be included as a part of any install()
commands.
Instead of specifying /usr/share/falco in config_falco_*.h.in, use
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and FALCO_SHARE_DIR.
The lua code for the engine has also moved, so the two lua source
directories (userspace/engine/lua and userspace/falco/lua) need to be
available separately via falco_common, so make it an argument to
falco_common::init.
As a part of making it easy to include in another project, also clean up
LPEG build/defs. Modify build-lpeg to add a PREFIX argument to allow for
object files/libraries being in an alternate location, and when building
lpeg, put object files in a build/ subdirectory.
