Thinking about Jenkins Security
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DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 "Thinking about Jenkins Security" presentation by Mark Waite, Wadeck Follonier and Meg McRoberts. Reviews Jenkins security concepts, common pitfalls, and the techniques to avoid those common pitfalls.
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Thinking about Jenkins Security
- 1. Thinking about Jenkins Security Concepts and Practices for Security
- 2. Thinking about Jenkins Security DevSecOps and SecurityJenkins Admin Wadeck Follonier Mark WaiteMeg McRoberts
- 3. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 3 Security Principles • Know the system • Least Privilege • Grant only required privileges • Open only required ports • Defense in Depth • Update your Software • Latest LTS • Latest Weekly
- 4. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 4 Is Jenkins Safe? Charles Dyer, image of San Francisco safe, https://flic.kr/p/hMBVYi
- 5. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 5 Is Jenkins Safe? Answer: Part 1 • Jenkins is • Distributed code execution service • Remote code execution service • Security is always a concern • Risk from connected components • Services can be intrusion points • Risk from executed jobs • Pipeline can run malicious code
- 6. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 6 Is Jenkins Safe? Answer: Part 2 • Many prevention facilities • Good practices are good defense • Jenkins security framework • Courses dive deeper
- 7. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 7 What is Security? Managing threats • Unwarranted access • Data theft • Data damage • Misuse of resources
- 8. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 8 Secure Your Information Protecting Your Intellectual Property • Your organization has information that is used to create value • Information has value. Assure its • Confidentiality • Integrity • Availability • Security practices protect your information
- 9. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 9 Don’t Run Malicious Code • Jenkins is distributed execution • Network connections as entry points • Bad actors want your resources • Cryptocurrency miners • Distributed denial of service attacks • Bot networks • Bad actors want to attack you • Malware attacks on your builds • Malware attacks on your products
- 10. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 10 What Needs to Be Secured? • Access to Jenkins master and agents • Communications between master & agents • Artifacts • Pipeline job definitions • Source code
- 11. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 11 Jenkins Pipeline Execution • Pipeline logic runs on master • Malicious pipeline on misconfigured Jenkins can: ▸Reconfigure Jenkins ▸Delete files ▸Launch attacks ▸Steal data • Pipeline calls steps on master & agents • Attacker could: ▸Run malicious code in build ▸Inject malicious code into build artifacts
- 12. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 12 Don’t Build on Master! • Do not build on Jenkins Master • Zero executors on the master • When master job is mandatory • Configure a master executor • Run the job • Remove the master executor • Jobs on master have access to the master file system and configuration • Run as the ‘Jenkins’ user • Read and write configuration files
- 13. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 13 Static and Ephemeral Agents • Advantages • Easy to provision • Persist indefinitely • Easy to configure • Predictable costs and allocation • Disadvantages • Persist “indefinitely” • Costs when idling • Harder to scale • Advantages • Single-use • Elastic allocation • No cost when idle • Easier to scale • Disadvantages • Initial configuration is harder • Debugging more difficult Static Agents Ephemeral Agents
- 14. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 14 Defense in Depth Physical examples • Company firewalls • Network separation • VPN access • Reverse proxies • DMZ
- 15. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 15 Defense in Depth Application / Jenkins examples • Credentials encryption • Password hashing • Sandboxing • Authorization
- 16. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 16 Global Security Settings • Jenkins default is secure • Closes common intrusion paths • Don’t disable the defaults • CSRF protection • Markup formatting • Content security policy
- 17. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 17 Key Security Concepts • Authentication • Who can access the system • Authorization • What can the authenticated user do
- 18. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 18 Authentication • Active Directory • LDAP • Jenkins’ own user database • OAuth • SAML • Kerberos • None
- 19. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 19 Authentication • Active Directory • LDAP • Jenkins’ own user database • OAuth • SAML • Kerberos • None
- 20. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 20 Authentication • Active Directory • LDAP • Jenkins’ own user database • OAuth • SAML • Kerberos • None
- 21. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 21 Authorization • Matrix-based security • Project-based matrix security • Role-based strategy • Logged-in users can do anything • Anyone can do anything
- 22. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 22 Authorization • Matrix-based security • Project-based matrix security • Role-based strategy • Logged-in users can do anything • Anyone can do anything
- 23. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 23 Authorization • Matrix-based security • Project-based matrix security • Role-based strategy • Logged-in users can do anything • Anyone can do anything
- 24. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 24 Least Privilege • Addition beats subtraction
- 25. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 25 Jenkins Credentials Trusted Access to Resources • Usernames and passwords • Private keys • OAuth tokens • Secret text • Certificates
- 26. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 26 Use Jenkins Credentials – Don’t Embed Plaintext • No passwords in source • No private keys in source • No authentication tokens in source
- 27. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 27 Jenkins Credentials - Examples • Master to agent ssh authentication • Source code ssh or https access • Artifact storage • Databases • Deployment environments
- 28. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 28 Why Jenkins Credentials? Stored securely, available in context • Credentials as Jenkins resources • Protected by Jenkins authorization matrix ▸Create, read, update, and delete permissions • Stored where they are used ▸Store credentials in folder containing jobs that use the credentials ▸Not available to jobs outside the folder
- 29. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 29 Best Practices Do these things • Update the operating system • Update Jenkins • Update plugins • Monitor security advisories • Mailing list - subscribe to jenkinsci-advisories • Review advisories – https://jenkins.io/security/advisories • Resolve administrative monitor
- 30. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 30 Best Practices Do these things • Apply Updates
- 31. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 31 Best Practices Do these things • Apply Updates
- 32. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 32 Best Practices Do these things • Apply Updates
- 33. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 33 Best Practices Do these things • Apply Updates
- 34. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. 34 Best Practices Do these things • Apply Updates
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