From Hypervisor to Container: Cloud Security Vulnerabilities, Defense Mechanisms, and Open Challenges

📅 2026-09-15
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本文通过分析120多篇安全文献,评估了云计算中虚拟机和容器的隔离边界被突破的风险,并提出ADPO框架来量化防御机制的有效性。
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In cloud computing, different users share the same physical hardware, which creates serious security risks. To protect data, cloud systems rely on virtual machines and containers to keep users isolated. This paper reviews over 120 security publications from 2008 to 2025, focusing on how these isolation boundaries can be breached. We examine threats like virtual machine escape, virtual machine hopping, CPU cache side-channels, container breakouts, vulnerable container images, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. We evaluate these security threats and their defenses using three key research questions. To compare different defense systems, we introduce a quantitative scoring framework called ADPO, which rates defenses from 0 to 3 based on their Accuracy, Deployment ease, Performance impact, and Operational overhead. We also map the impact of these attacks onto a 1-to-5 severity scale for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Finally, we highlight the trade-offs between security and system performance, and we outline open challenges like building low-overhead intrusion detection and creating realistic test datasets.
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cloud security
virtual machine escape
container breakout
side-channel attacks
DDoS
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ADPO
cloud security
defense mechanisms
quantitative scoring framework
security impact scale
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