Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF

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  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
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  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

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  • Cut a new release
    Open
    kind/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#5368 · 1 comment ·

  • Refactor/Optimise argument/data parsing (stringification)
    May be free again @geyslan claimed this 144 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/performance kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#5338 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Review VM_ vs PROT_ naming for mmap/mprotect-related BPF and events**
    May be free again @geyslan claimed this 200 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug

    aquasecurity/tracee#5295 · 1 assignee ·

  • ci: fast forward merges doesn't dipatch PR Sync or any other workflow
    May be free again @geyslan claimed this 201 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#5294 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • stack_pivot: false positives on Go 1.26 binaries due to heap base randomization
    May be free again @josedonizetti claimed this 253 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug

    aquasecurity/tracee#5246 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

  • Container/pods filters implicitly exclude host events
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#5224 · 2 comments ·

  • Add gRPC Health Checking Protocol support
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
    kind/feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#5217 ·

  • Tracee Test Coverage Across Distros and Kernels
    May be free again @geyslan claimed this 300 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/chore

    aquasecurity/tracee#5188 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Refactor e2e (kernel, network) tests
    Open
    kind/chore kind/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#5037 ·

  • Add Body to net_packet_http
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
    kind/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4852 · 2 comments ·

  • `dst_dns` arg for the `net_tcp_connect` event is empty
    Open
    kind/bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4675 ·

  • Parse arguments of triggering events
    May be free again @NDStrahilevitz claimed this 628 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#4601 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • ARM64: eBPF crashes when Tracee starts with flags `pprof` and `pyroscope`
    Open
    kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4556 · 3 comments ·

  • Fix/create ebpf/userland types
    May be free again @geyslan claimed this 655 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/ebpf area/userspace kind/bug

    aquasecurity/tracee#4551 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • ParseArgs unnecessary casting leads to wrong values
    Open
    kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4504 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Extend In-Kernel Data Filtering for other types of filtering
    May be free again @rscampos claimed this 695 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/ebpf kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#4433 · 1 assignee ·

  • [FEAT] tracee replay flag
    May be free again @josedonizetti claimed this 338 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#4425 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • `symbols_loaded` and `symbols_collision` events work incorrectly with multiple policies
    Open
    kind/bug

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4352 · 1 comment ·

  • Add capturing support in k8s
    Open
    area/capture kind/feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4164 ·

  • Refactor release build/ci process
    May be free again @geyslan claimed this 863 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug kind/chore

    aquasecurity/tracee#4152 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Bogus packets generated by packet capture
    Open
    area/capture kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#4087 ·

  • Remove policy limitations
    May be free again @yanivagman claimed this 704 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3987 · 1 assignee ·

  • Network events cause high CPU and latency
    May be free again @josedonizetti claimed this 935 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug

    aquasecurity/tracee#3986 · 1 assignee ·

  • Incorrect expected behavior of BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_HASH
    Open
    kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3930 · 2 comments ·

  • Add support for <, > operators
    Open
    kind/feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3856 ·

  • Enrichment concurrency issue with control plane
    May be free again @josedonizetti claimed this 292 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug

    aquasecurity/tracee#3850 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • feature: trace HTTPS events
    Open
    kind/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3827 · 1 comment ·

  • Vector files capture might use incorrect offsets
    Open
    area/capture area/ebpf kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3818 ·

  • TOCTOU in the eBPF path caching
    Open
    area/ebpf kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3804 · 2 comments ·

  • Apply capture io filters on the exec capture
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1029 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/capture kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3803 · 1 assignee ·

  • Support path suffix filter for captures
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1029 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/capture area/filtering kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3801 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Missing capture write of ELF files documentation
    Open
    area/capture kind/documentation

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 50/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3789 ·

  • Capture an ELF file upon mem_prot_alert
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1044 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/capture kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3787 · 1 assignee ·

  • Add Kubernetes filters to scopes
    Open
    kind/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3711 · 5 comments ·

  • docs: Add a tutorial on forwarding Tracee logs
    Open
    kind/documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3703 ·

  • When enabling "exec-env" option, too many false positives happen
    May be free again @josedonizetti claimed this 295 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/bug

    aquasecurity/tracee#3659 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • docs: Rewrite Architecture Section
    May be free again @yanivagman claimed this 1014 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    kind/documentation

    aquasecurity/tracee#3639 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Symbols import event
    Open
    area/events kind/feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3533 ·

  • File create high-level event
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1135 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/events kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3532 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

  • Analyze mode should support same (or similar) features as regular pipeline.
    May be free again @NDStrahilevitz claimed this 818 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/rules kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3520 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Writing to a process memory event
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1138 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/events kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3518 · 1 assignee ·

  • Chmod internal event
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1138 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/events kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3517 · 1 assignee ·

  • Extract Tracee package out of ebpf package
    Open
    kind/chore

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3444 ·

  • Captured files IO space optimization
    Open
    area/capture kind/feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3420 ·

  • Unbounded disk space usage by capture feature
    Open
    area/capture kind/bug

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3419 · 1 comment ·

  • Central container for building
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3392 · 4 comments ·

  • Docs: document the release process in the contributing guidelines of the documentation
    Open
    kind/documentation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3377 ·

  • Avoid search for path in capture path filter if not filtered
    Open
    area/capture area/ebpf area/performance kind/feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3365 · 1 reaction ·

  • magic_read event
    May be free again @AlonZivony claimed this 1195 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/ebpf area/events kind/feature

    aquasecurity/tracee#3358 · 1 assignee ·

  • Test all non-syscall events in all kernels
    Open
    area/testing kind/feature

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    aquasecurity/tracee#3357 · 1 comment ·

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