I recently responded to the Log4j vulnerability. If you’re not aware, Log4j is a very popular Java logging library used in many Java applications. There was a vulnerability where malicious actors could remotely take control of your computer by submitting a specially crafted request parameter that gets directly logged to log4j.
This situation was not ideal since I was running several Java applications on my servers, thus I decided to use Nmap to port scan my dedicated server to see what ports were open. I ended up finding a number of ports I didn’t expect because several of Kubernetes Service instances were being mapped as node ports.
In this post, I outline the problem with Kubernete’s default strategy for services and how to avoid exposing ports that you don’t need.
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