Over three-quarters of container images have high risk vulnerabilities

A new report from container and cloud security company Sysdig finds that 75 percent of images contain patchable vulnerabilities of 'high' or 'critical' severity. In addition 85 percent of container images that run in production contain at least one patchable vulnerability. Looking at the issues in more detail, 73 percent of cloud accounts contain exposed S3 buckets and 36 percent of all existing S3 buckets are open to public access. The amount of risk associated with an open bucket varies according to the sensitivity of the data stored there, but leaving buckets open is rarely necessary and is a shortcut… [Continue Reading]