Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

kotalco/kotal

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Fixes

CVEs

HIGH

Peak severity

Highlights

Auth Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

controllers: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Privilege Escalation: Containers for Ethereum, Ethereum 2, and IPFS were historically allowed to run as root with overly permissive (777) file permissions. Failure to strictly enforce a non-root securityContext across all controller-generated PodSpecs allows container escape or host-level compromise if a node is breached.

Auth Bypass: The controller failed to mount configured JWT secrets into Ethereum node containers, leaving sensitive Engine APIs unauthenticated and exposed. Any new node controller implementation or protocol integration must explicitly verify that configured authentication assets are correctly materialized in the container file system.