PingCap TiDB Leaks (fulcrumsec.vg)
241 points by swyx a day ago
llama052 3 hours ago
https://www.pingcap.com/trust-hub/security/security-update-o...
I find it really baffling how much they are downplaying this incident on their statement.
”An external incident response firm reviewed PingCAP’s production systems and found no evidence that the attacker ran commands or maintained persistent access in the systems reviewed”
That does not appear to be true.
bombcar 2 hours ago
Certainly there was no evidence; they likely have no logging anyway!
zergrush 2 hours ago
since they pasted customer creds in jira tickets they most likely are very liable hence the downplaying
im not an expert but if I was an investor I'd try to find a buyer for my shares and run
alright2565 8 minutes ago
> in the systems reviewed
is load bearing I expect.
aliasxneo 2 hours ago
> PingCAP's engineers paste customers' production credentials into Jira tickets.
Holy hell, I've heard of this happening, but I've never personally seen it in my 10 years as an SRE. That's absolutely wild.
adamparsons 2 hours ago
It sounds like their jira instance was truly the keys to the kingdom, given the creds _and_ tickets describing all the flaws needing fixing. A golden README.MD to escalate to their hearts content
xKingfisher a day ago
Coming this close on the heels of the security audit by NCC [1] is pretty embarassing for all parties.
[1]https://www.pingcap.com/press-release/tidb-ncc-group-securit...
hintymad 10 hours ago
> TiDB, the open-source distributed SQL database powered by PingCAP, today published the results of a rigorous source-code security assessment by NCC Group, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity consultancies.
It looks like you can assess the hell out of your source code, but your system can still leak if you don't secure your operations.
somat 31 minutes ago
There was a quote from back in early web days that has stuck with me, Still relevant today.
"good opsec will save you from bad crypto. but the converse is not true, good crypto will not save you from bad opsec"
kobieps 11 hours ago
From personal experience having worked with multiple "enterprise-grade" pentest vendors (including NCC), I think the entire pentest industry is overdue for a big shake-up.
jacquesm 3 hours ago
No particular opinion on NCC but a lot of that stuff is pay-to-play.
dherls a day ago
If true, this is next level incompetence from PingCap. Apparently the attackers set up a replication pipeline for a month?!
> We even stood up a replication feed of their own control-plane database using credentials committed in their own repositories — GCP service-account keys and an Azure service principal — and let their infrastructure deliver it to us. Every six hours, for the last twenty-two days of the campaign, from 8 September to 30 September, that pipeline faithfully re-exported every table of the operational heart of TiDB Cloud — tenants, users, API keys, cluster credentials, changefeeds, migrations — and pushed it out.
neya 2 hours ago
Pingcap's statement:
With support from outside counsel and third-party forensic specialists, there is no evidence that data stored in TiDB was impacted. We keep on investigating and will provide updates on any new findings.
arpinum a day ago
AWS private rates gives PingCAP ~47% off list price. Wonder which services got the biggest discounts? Unsurprisingly for a db company the cross-az traffic is 15% of their bill.
driverdan 10 minutes ago
Sounds about right. The more you use the deeper the discount they'll give you.
perpetualpear an hour ago
You can get some sweet deals on s3, assuming you store 10-100s of PB
nemothekid a day ago
Man I recently executed a migration from Aurora to Planetscale. I seriously considered PingCap but decided against it because I thought they cloud pricing was too complex. I wonder if my personal information is in the leak.
wannabe44 21 hours ago
> Summary: "The root password of the cluster can be reset unconditionally"
But what matters is that it was all memory safe and had no data races.
boorbat 14 hours ago
You realize it's written in Go right?
wannabe44 13 hours ago
Not even data race safe then. NGMI.
thenthenthen 3 hours ago
Why is Baidu among their clients
dangoodmanUT a day ago
what is happening today
and how are people not talking about this more
dilyevsky a day ago
only the beginning. next year or two are going to be wild on this front so buckle up...
esafak a day ago
rvz a day ago
First the Google Cloud outage [0], then the CA private key leak [1]...
...and now this...
> Today we are making the PingCAP breach public. We possess the complete TiDB Cloud control plane, its billing and finance estate, its GCP storage estate and its AWS cost and billing estate, its Jira, its CRM, its analytics, its source code, and a four-year log of every connection every customer ever made to its product, from the IP addresses of their application servers.
This is an entire leak of ALL PingCap TiDB's customers AND data.
All of this in a single day. It is over.
gregwebs a day ago
I am reading this as a leak of every possible piece of metadata but not an actual leak of customer data. They have SQL logs which do contain customer data and there is a mention of some snapshots/imports.
berenddeboer 6 hours ago
they leaked full connection strings for customer databases with users and passwords.
hdjdnxjzhzhs a day ago
How the fuck is 10.6TB metadata?
fock 12 hours ago
gregwebs a day ago
binsquare a day ago
qingcharles a day ago
Don't forget the PHP megabomb dropping in a few hours too.
jedisct1 18 hours ago
It's written in Rust, so it's safe.
boorbat 14 hours ago
https://github.com/pingcap/tidb reports as 95% Go with no Rust at all?
squirrellous 14 hours ago
That confused me too since I remember reading they are Rust proponents. Apparently their storage engine TiKV is written in Rust, and TiDB is the database built on top.