chaos-engineer
Audited by Socket on Sep 6, 2026
2 alerts found:
SecurityAnomalyThe snippet is consistent with intentional chaos/resiliency testing. No clear malicious behaviors (exfiltration/persistence/backdoors) are present, but it is inherently high-impact: it performs privileged `/etc/hosts` modifications, saturates system resources, and disrupts Docker containers and network traffic. The primary security concern is operational risk and potential command/escaping risk tied to interpolated `domain` in sudo shell execution if inputs are not tightly controlled.
No clear evidence of classic malware (no obfuscation, no stealth/backdoor/exfiltration/persistence). However, the fragment contains high-impact disruptive capabilities (EC2 instance termination, Gremlin CPU/network/blackhole attacks, and Litmus Kubernetes chaos) and introduces governance/supply-chain risks (remote Litmus operator manifest installation without visible pinning/signature verification; Flask endpoint bound to 0.0.0.0 without shown access control). Treat as sensitive chaos tooling requiring strict environment scoping, strong authorization/approvals, parameter validation, and supply-chain integrity verification for externally fetched manifests.