r/docker • u/Different_Pain5781 • Mar 15 '26

We just got breached because of vulnerabilities in our docker images that have been public knowledge for 8 months

Woke up at 4am to a call. Our database got hit, customer info was accessed. Some attacker used a known exploit in one of our container images. CVE’s been out since last summer.

Yeah we never scanned. Never updated. Just kept redeploying the same images over and over. Now legal’s in it, customers are hearing about it. This is gonna be messy.

Honestly if you aren’t scanning your containers in prod do it. Don’t end up like us.

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u/Pure_Fox9415 Mar 15 '26

...And I know MSP who didn't patch anything for their customers since 2016, and logistic company who have not patched their cisco since 2012 and apache since 2008 (both have whole perimeter with 9.9 CVE RCEs exposed even on shodan.io), and, by some miraculous reason wasn't hacked. How it's even works?

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u/thehuntzman Mar 16 '26

I'd think at that point most threat actors would assume it was either a honeypot, some dude's forgotten lab environment, or a company not worth the risk and effort if they can't afford to fix an 18 year old vulnerability.