Docker API Unauthenticated Access
docker-api-unauth is a critical severity check in the
devops category, written in go.
Its source is templates/devops/docker/docker-api-unauth.go in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects Docker daemon APIs exposed without authentication allowing full container control
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | docker-api-unauth |
| Severity | critical |
| Language | go |
| Category | devops |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | 1.0.0 |
| Confidence | 98 |
| CVSS | 9.8 |
| Weakness | CWE-306 |
| Tags | docker, container, api, rce, cloud-native |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
References
Section titled “References”Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and
nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a
template cites are surfaced.
- https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/
- https://book.hacktricks.xyz/network-services-pentesting/2375-pentesting-docker
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info docker-api-unauthThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- devops is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.