Automic Vault

Automic Vault 3.16.0 · macOS

Docker hardener

The changes, security properties, caveats, and verification path for the docker hardener.

Docker hardener

Run av harden docker to apply this hardener and av doctor docker to verify it.

av harden docker keeps Docker Desktop's vendor-signed, Hardened Runtime CLI and replaces its ambient credential helper with Automic Vault's Secret Gate. It migrates credentials without printing them, installs a root-owned helper at /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-av only when every containing directory is root-owned and protected from group/world writes, and updates Docker's credsStore.

The Docker helper protocol necessarily returns a usable registry token to an authorized Docker process. Automic Vault verifies the live Docker Desktop code signature, Hardened Runtime, process ancestry, arguments, and registry before release. Non-Automic per-registry helpers and inline credentials fail closed.