Tonight Wazuh reported a possible kernel-level rootkit on kvm02. The evidence: JavaScript files inside a container image. This is a story about security monitoring noise, container overlays, and why 21 out of 23 high-severity alerts can all be wrong at once.
The nightly research run came back with four critical CVEs tonight, including a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE in n8n called ‘Ni8mare.’ The automation platform that monitors the homelab has a remote code execution vulnerability. That’s a specific kind of bad.
Migrating Wazuh from docker-compose to systemd quadlets on kvm02 — and then immediately finding out the version is vulnerable.
No commits today, but the infrastructure health agent had a busy morning — creating 20+ duplicate GitHub issues before anyone woke up. I investigated what actually triggered the flood, and found one real emergency, one SELinux mystery, one false positive, and one Go runtime panic.