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Malcolm v26.07.1 adds a few minor changes on top of Malcolm v26.07.0, the most notable being a fix for a crash in the strelka-backend container on arm64 platforms. Malcolm v26.07.0 added IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104) protocol support using CERT.LV's Zeek plugin, including Logstash parsing, ECS normalization, Arkime fields, and a new OpenSearch Dashboards dashboard. This release also fixes three archive extraction and authentication security vulnerabilities; improves NetBox enrichment configuration; and addresses PostgreSQL major version upgrade, custom CA certificate for KeyCloak, container health check, privilege-drop signal chaining, and configuration script issues. Arkime, Zeek, Fluent Bit, Filebeat, Logstash, Supercronic, and Alpine-based images have been updated as well.

If you are upgrading from an existing Malcolm installation, run ./scripts/status for Malcolm to migrate some settings prior to running ./scripts/configure, ./scripts/start, or other Malcolm control scripts.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v26.06.1...v26.07.1

• ✨ Features and enhancements

  • Add IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104) support using the CERT.LV spicy-iec104 Zeek plugin, including Zeek log ingestion, ECS field mapping, Arkime fields, and an IEC 104 dashboard #939
  • Make LOGSTASH_NETBOX_ENRICHMENT_DATASETS more flexible: it now accepts default, ics/ot, all, explicit provider.dataset values, and combinations such as default,ics #1037
  • Allow LOGSTASH_NETBOX_ENRICHMENT_DATASETS to be configured through checkboxes in the configuration TUI #1033
  • Improve ./scripts/start error messages by listing missing or invalid authentication-related files instead of reporting only a generic authentication setup failure #865
  • Have system-quickstart detect and prepopulate existing time synchronization settings when rerun #992

• 🛡️ Security Remediation & Hardening

  • Fix an RBAC bypass caused by URI normalization differences between Nginx location matching and the Lua authorization layer CVE-2026-63177 #1042
  • Fix path traversal in archive extraction directory handling by validating resolved paths and using libarchive's secure extraction flags CVE-2026-63134 #1040
  • Limit archive entry count, nesting depth, and total expanded size to prevent inode- and resource-exhaustion denial of service during extraction CVE-2026-63133 #1041
  • Mark OpenID Connect session cookies as secure and improve handling of externally forwarded HTTPS schemes

• 🐛 Bug fixes

  • Co-installation of opencv-python and opencv-contrib-python corrupts cv2.abi3.so, segfaulting strelka-backend at import on arm64 #1046 (fix)
  • Allow the configuration TUI to reset supported variables back to empty values after installation #1024, #1030
  • Fix the broken signal chain in docker-uid-gid-setup.sh so signals reach the final process after dropping privileges #1039 to ensure clean shutdown of containers
  • Fix PostgreSQL being reported unhealthy after a major-version upgrade, improve upgrade-state handling, and perform required post-upgrade extension and collation maintenance #1038
  • Fix the Nginx Lua/OpenID Connect helper not honoring user-provided CA certificates for KeyCloak when KEYCLOAK_SSL_VERIFY=true #1035
  • Restore curl to the the htadmin container for use by the health check script #1029
  • Reduce the size of the OpenSearch Dashboards image by copying only the permissions data needed from its upstream image layer #1031
  • Fix JSON handling of several Zeek fields whose names contain dots by normalizing them to underscore-separated field names
  • Fix additional Zeek and Suricata field normalization and ECS mapping inconsistencies found while updating dashboards and index templates

• ✅ Component version updates

  • Arkime to v6.6.0
    • This update contains a major speed-up when loading the SPIView and Connections pages
  • Zeek to v8.2.1 #970
  • Fluent Bit Windows installer helper to v5.0.9
  • Filebeat OSS to v9.4.3
  • Logstash to v9.4.4
  • Pillow (Python library used in the netbox container) to v12.3.0 to address several security findings
  • Supercronic to v0.2.47
  • Alpine Linux base images to v3.24
  • KeyCloak to 26.6.4
  • cryptography (Python library) to v48.0.1 to address security advisory GHSA-537c-gmf6-5ccf

• 🧹 Code and project maintenance

  • Broad spelling, grammar, naming consistency, and documentation cleanup across scripts, configuration, dashboards, and documentation #990
  • Expand and restructure documentation to provide better project context for developers and LLM-assisted code analysis #964
    • Malcolm Dashboard Reference
    • Search Queries in Arkime and OpenSearch Dashboards
  • Improve installer validation, environment-variable mapping tests, and configuration item metadata
  • Refresh dashboards, index templates, field mappings, protocol documentation, and navigation links
  • Minor improvements to the Hedgehog Raspberry Pi image build process.

• 📄 Configuration changes for Malcolm (in environment variables in ./config/). The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start) automatically handles creation and migration of variables according to ./config/env-var-actions.yml.

  • LOGSTASH_NETBOX_ENRICHMENT_DATASETS in logstash.env now defaults to default and may contain default, ics/ot, all, explicit provider.dataset values, or a comma-separated combination of these values
  • ZEEK_DISABLE_ICS_IEC104 in zeek.env controls whether the IEC 104 Zeek plugin is disabled
  • SAFE_EXTRACT_MAX_ENTRIES, SAFE_EXTRACT_MAX_DEPTH, and SAFE_EXTRACT_MAX_BYTES in upload-common.env set archive extraction resource limits for uploaded archive files (e.g., containing Zeek logs for processing); their defaults are 5,000 entries, 20 directory levels, and 4 GiB of expanded data

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #Strelka #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Malcolm v26.07.0 adds IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104) protocol support using CERT.LV's Zeek plugin, including Logstash parsing, ECS normalization, Arkime fields, and a new OpenSearch Dashboards dashboard. This release also fixes three archive extraction and authentication security vulnerabilities; improves NetBox enrichment configuration; and addresses PostgreSQL major version upgrade, custom CA certificate for KeyCloak, container health check, privilege-drop signal chaining, and configuration script issues. Arkime, Zeek, Fluent Bit, Filebeat, Logstash, Supercronic, and Alpine-based images have been updated as well.

If you are upgrading from an existing Malcolm installation, run ./scripts/status for Malcolm to migrate some settings prior to running ./scripts/configure, ./scripts/start, or other Malcolm control scripts.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v26.06.1...v26.07.0

• ✨ Features and enhancements

  • Add IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104) support using the CERT.LV spicy-iec104 Zeek plugin, including Zeek log ingestion, ECS field mapping, Arkime fields, and an IEC 104 dashboard #939
  • Make LOGSTASH_NETBOX_ENRICHMENT_DATASETS more flexible: it now accepts default, ics/ot, all, explicit provider.dataset values, and combinations such as default,ics #1037
  • Allow LOGSTASH_NETBOX_ENRICHMENT_DATASETS to be configured through checkboxes in the configuration TUI #1033
  • Improve ./scripts/start error messages by listing missing or invalid authentication-related files instead of reporting only a generic authentication setup failure #865
  • Have system-quickstart detect and prepopulate existing time synchronization settings when rerun #992

• 🛡️ Security Remediation & Hardening

  • Fix an RBAC bypass caused by URI normalization differences between Nginx location matching and the Lua authorization layer CVE-2026-63177 #1042
  • Fix path traversal in archive extraction directory handling by validating resolved paths and using libarchive's secure extraction flags CVE-2026-63134 #1040
  • Limit archive entry count, nesting depth, and total expanded size to prevent inode- and resource-exhaustion denial of service during extraction CVE-2026-63133 #1041
  • Mark OpenID Connect session cookies as secure and improve handling of externally forwarded HTTPS schemes

• 🐛 Bug fixes

  • Allow the configuration TUI to reset supported variables back to empty values after installation #1024, #1030
  • Fix the broken signal chain in docker-uid-gid-setup.sh so signals reach the final process after dropping privileges #1039 to ensure clean shutdown of containers
  • Fix PostgreSQL being reported unhealthy after a major-version upgrade, improve upgrade-state handling, and perform required post-upgrade extension and collation maintenance #1038
  • Fix the Nginx Lua/OpenID Connect helper not honoring user-provided CA certificates for KeyCloak when KEYCLOAK_SSL_VERIFY=true #1035
  • Restore curl to the the htadmin container for use by the health check script #1029
  • Reduce the size of the OpenSearch Dashboards image by copying only the permissions data needed from its upstream image layer #1031
  • Fix JSON handling of several Zeek fields whose names contain dots by normalizing them to underscore-separated field names
  • Fix additional Zeek and Suricata field normalization and ECS mapping inconsistencies found while updating dashboards and index templates

• ✅ Component version updates

  • Arkime to v6.6.0
    • This update contains a major speed-up when loading the SPIView and Connections pages
  • Zeek to v8.2.1 #970
  • Fluent Bit Windows installer helper to v5.0.9
  • Filebeat OSS to v9.4.3
  • Logstash OSS to v9.4.3
  • Supercronic to v0.2.47
  • Alpine Linux base images to v3.24
  • KeyCloak to 26.6.4
  • cryptography (Python library) to v48.0.1 to address security advisory GHSA-537c-gmf6-5ccf

• 🧹 Code and project maintenance

  • Broad spelling, grammar, naming consistency, and documentation cleanup across scripts, configuration, dashboards, and documentation #990
  • Expand and restructure documentation to provide better project context for developers and LLM-assisted code analysis #964
    • Malcolm Dashboard Reference
    • Search Queries in Arkime and OpenSearch Dashboards
  • Improve installer validation, environment-variable mapping tests, and configuration item metadata
  • Refresh dashboards, index templates, field mappings, protocol documentation, and navigation links

• 📄 Configuration changes for Malcolm (in environment variables in ./config/). The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start) automatically handles creation and migration of variables according to ./config/env-var-actions.yml.

  • LOGSTASH_NETBOX_ENRICHMENT_DATASETS in logstash.env now defaults to default and may contain default, ics/ot, all, explicit provider.dataset values, or a comma-separated combination of these values
  • ZEEK_DISABLE_ICS_IEC104 in zeek.env controls whether the IEC 104 Zeek plugin is disabled
  • SAFE_EXTRACT_MAX_ENTRIES, SAFE_EXTRACT_MAX_DEPTH, and SAFE_EXTRACT_MAX_BYTES in upload-common.env set archive extraction resource limits for uploaded archive files (e.g., containing Zeek logs for processing); their defaults are 5,000 entries, 20 directory levels, and 4 GiB of expanded data

• ❌ Errata

  • Post-release, a Strelka bug was found which can cause the strelka-backend container's work process to crash on aarch64 platforms (cisagov#1046). A followup v26.07.1 release addressing this issue is forthcoming.

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #Strelka #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Malcolm v26.06.0 is primarily a security hardening release, addressing fifteen vulnerabilities (2 high severity, 6 medium, and 7 low) identified in a security assessment. Bug fixes address an issue with the zeek container causing performance degredation over time and a fix for duplicate virtual machine entries in NetBox autopopulation. A few component versions have also been updated.

If you are upgrading from an existing Malcolm installation, run ./scripts/status for Malcolm to migrate some settings prior to running ./scripts/configure, ./scripts/start, or other Malcolm control scripts.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v26.05.2...v26.06.0

• 🛡️ Security Remediation & Hardening (#996)
  • Unauthenticated reflected XSS / open redirect in /dashboards/app/refred; also added Content-Security-Policy framing headers (frame-ancestors, base-uri, form-action) and X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN globally to mitigate clickjacking (#997)
  • Authenticated command injection in filebeat container via SFTP-uploaded filename (#998)
  • Password stored as MD5-crypt for SFTP (#1009)
  • Authenticated archive zip-slip file write in filebeat container (#999)
  • OpenSearch path injection via /mapi/fields?template (#1000)
  • submit.php Location: open redirect via Referer (#1007)
  • htadmin proxied with no nginx auth gate (#1003)
  • Keycloak OIDC ssl_verify always set to false (#1006)
  • NetBox SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=admin shipped default (#1011)
  • RBAC defaultdict(lambda: True) fail-open for unlisted handlers in Malcolm API (#1004)
  • Read-only Arkime deny-regex omits addtags/removetags (#1008)
  • Read-only deployment allows POST /mapi/event (#1002)
  • WISE auth path selectable by client User-Agent (#1001)
  • ARKIME_PASSWORD_SECRET=Malcolm shipped default (#1005)
  • requests CVE bump reverted in logstash image (#1010)
  • Fix API auth errors and hide NGINX version disclosure (#989)
• 🐛 Bug fixes
  • auto-discovered Virtual Machines in NetBox seem to allow for duplicates (#978)
  • Ensure list of archive file types supported by Malcolm for uploading Zeek logs (application/gzip,application/vnd.rar,application/x-7z-compressed,application/x-bzip2,application/x-cpio,application/x-gzip,application/x-lzip,application/x-lzma,application/x-rar-compressed,application/x-tar,application/x-xz,application/zip) are consistently used across the platform.
  • zeek container continually grows /usr/local/zeek/crontab, causing Malcolm performance to gradually worsen (#1015)
• ✅ Component version updates
  • Filebeat to v9.4.2
  • Fluent Bit to v5.0.6
  • Logstash to v9.4.2
  • Supercronic to v0.2.46
  • uv to v0.11.15
• 🧹 Code and project maintenance
  • Fixed some incorrect links in documentation (#988, thanks @jsoref)
  • Refactored NGINX error pages configuration into its own include file and added a 401.html page
• 📄 Configuration changes for Malcolm (in environment variables in ./config/). The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start) automatically handles creation and migration of variables according to ./config/env-var-actions.yml.
  • Added KEYCLOAK_SSL_VERIFY (default false) to keycloak.env for #1006
  • The Arkime password hash secret ARKIME_PASSWORD_SECRET in arkime-secret.env no longer has a default value: it must be set during auth_setup (for #1005)
  • The Netbox superuser password SUPERUSER_PASSWORD in netbox-secret.env no longer has a default value: it must be set during auth_setup (for #1011)

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #Strelka #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Malcolm v26.05.2 is out?!? What, already? Déjà vu? We bumped up to the timetable on this release as a critical vulnerability found in NGINX made it expedient for us to do so.

Malcolm v26.05.2 focuses heavily on security updates, most notably upgrading OpenResty to address a critical NGINX remote code execution heap buffer overflow vulnerability. It also adds new Suricata OT detections for D-Link HNAP abuse, improves alerting webhook support, introduces the File Tree dashboard, and includes Suricata parsing/mapping fixes and documentation updates. Several other components received version bumps as well.

If you are upgrading from an existing Malcolm installation, run ./scripts/status for Malcolm to migrate some settings prior to running ./scripts/configure, ./scripts/start, or other Malcolm control scripts.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v26.05.0...v26.05.2

• ✨ Features and enhancements
  • Improvements to alerting loopback webhook API endpoint (#971) (see also this discussion)
  • Add Suricata OT rules for D-Link HNAP abuse detection (#969) (Suricata detection for GHSA-m69q-2cfc-q63c / CVE-2026-8260; thanks @sercanokur)
  • Added the File Tree visualization dashboard which presents a hierarchical breakdown of files observed in network traffic, particularly with regards to archived files such as ZIP files or tarballs, allowing parent/child relationships between nested files to be explored. (thanks @sbhiens25)
• ✅ Component version updates
  • Filebeat to v9.4.1
  • Fluent Bit to v5.0.5
  • GitPython to v3.1.50 to address high vulnerabilities CVE-2026-44244, CVE-2026-44243, and CVE-2026-42284
  • Logstash to v9.4.1
  • NetBox to v4.5.x (#955)
    • This is a major NetBox release, up from v4.4.10. It's recommended that you back up your NetBox database before upgrading.
    • these NetBox plugins were also updated:
      • netbox-initializers to v4.5.1
      • netbox-topology-views to v4.5.1
      • Device-Type-Library-Import switched to marcinpsk/Device-Type-Library-Import fork
    • thanks to @boscard in this discussion for some tips on running NetBox docker on a base path.
  • OpenResty to v1.29.2.4, which, in addition to other fixes and changes, addresses the following CVEs
    • critical: RCE heap buffer overflow vulnerability in NGINX CVE-2026-42945 (#976)
    • high: Buffer overflow in ngx_http_dav_module CVE-2026-27654
    • high: Buffer overflow in the ngx_http_mp4_module CVE-2026-27784
    • high: Buffer overflow in the ngx_http_mp4_module CVE-2026-32647
    • high: NULL pointer dereference while using CRAM-MD5 or APOP CVE-2026-27651
    • medium: Injection in auth_http and XCLIENT CVE-2026-28753
    • medium: OCSP result bypass in stream CVE-2026-28755
    • high: SSL upstream injection CVE-2026-1642
  • urllib3 to v2.7.0 to address high vulnerabilities CVE-2026-44431 and CVE-2026-44432
• 🐛 Bug fixes
  • Reference Counting (Use-After-Free) Bug for PyList_SetItem in filescan's python-statfs (#960 #962)
  • Added a few missing Suricata fields (suricata.tc_progress, suricata.ts_progress, suricata.tunnel.pcap_cnt, suricata.tunnel.pkt_src) to the index mapping template
  • When suricata.app_proto_ts and/or suricata.app_proto_tc reported that protocol parsing had failed (due to malformed input data), invalid data could be stored in HTTP, DNS, and/or TLS fields. This is now detected and those invalid values are dropped, and some combination of proto_parse_failed, client_stream_failed, or server_stream_failed are added to tags.
  • Suricata's HTTP version was not being normalized to network.protocol_version.
• 🧹 Code and project maintenance
  • Added Malcolm Dashboard Reference to documentation
  • Completely rewrote Upgrading Malcolm in documentation
  • Updated links to protocols page in documentation for new Arkime protocol support (thanks @awick)

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #Strelka #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Malcolm v26.05.0 delivers a mix of feature improvements, performance improvements, bug fixes, dependency updates, and deployment refinements across Malcolm and Hedgehog for both Docker- and Kubernetes-based workflows.

If you are upgrading from an existing Malcolm installation, run ./scripts/status for Malcolm to migrate some settings prior to running ./scripts/configure, ./scripts/start, or other Malcolm control scripts.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v26.04.1...v26.05.0

• ✨ Features and enhancements
  • #726 — use hierarchical structure for NetBox device roles
    • Expanded/reworked NetBox preloaded device roles into a hierarchical taxonomy (thanks Crubumble)
  • #867 — examine large chown'ed directories in container images and see if they can be reduced
  • #954 — allow users to provide custom netbox scripts to be automatically registered on startup (thanks PrudhviChanda)
    • Added NetBox custom script support in the container/runtime and docs, including bind-mounting ./netbox/custom-scripts and automatic script registration at startup
    • Renamed NetBox startup/control scripts from netbox/scripts to netbox/control-scripts
  • Added file.strings extraction/indexing/search support across Strelka → Logstash → OpenSearch templates (wildcard field mapping type) → Arkime/WISE
  • Added configurable Zeek file analyzer timeout via ZEEK_FILE_ANALYZER_TIMEOUT_SEC
  • netdev users in ISO-installed environment can run nmcli and nmtui to configure network interfaces.
  • the malcolm_appliance_packager.sh script that creates a tarball of Malcolm images can now package for both Malcolm and Hedgehog profiles.
• ✅ Component version updates
  • Arkime to v6.3.1
  • cryptography to v46.0.7
  • Filebeat OSS to v9.3.4
  • Fluent Bit to v5.0.4
  • GitPython to v3.1.47
  • Keycloak to v26.6
  • Logstash OSS to v9.2.8
  • OpenSearch and Opensearch Dashboards to v3.6.0
  • opensearch-py to v3.2.0
  • pillow to v12.2.0
  • python-dotenv to v1.2.2
  • Supercronic to v0.2.45
  • yq to v4.53.2
  • Zeek to v8.1.2
• 🐛 Bug fixes
  • #757 — multiple OpenSearch nodes (using Malcolm-Helm) fail to communicate with each other due to self-signed certs (thanks scott-jeffery)
    • OpenSearch post-start setup now supports configurable default replica counts instead of always forcing single-node replicas to 0
    • OpenSearch self-signed internal cert generation can now be skipped when external/preexisting certs are being used
  • #827 — Fix raspberry pi build which is broken since v25.12.0 Hedgehog/Malcolm platform unification
    • Updated Hedgehog Raspberry Pi docs and first-boot behavior/documentation
    • Hedgehog Raspberry Pi image now forces password change for sensor on first login and disables direct root password login by default
    • Refactored Raspberry Pi GitHub Actions build into reusable workflow .github/workflows/raspi-build-push.yml
  • #878 — Arkime capture Fails to Start on Hedgehog When WISE Web Config Is Enabled
    • Arkime RBAC role-mapping injection is now only applied when role-based access control is enabled
    • Arkime WISE configuration initialization now handles missing/empty persistent config files more robustly
    • Arkime live capture now normalizes WISE URLs better, follows redirects when probing, and avoids some bad URL construction edge cases
  • #957 — configuration script can disable ICS parsers unintentionally
  • #959 — Arkime sessions view attempts to load PCAP for Zeek and Suricata logs (which don't have PCAP) (see also arkime/arkime#3934)
  • Fixed one-off cleanup of interrupted Zeek intel files during stop --wipe
• 🧹 Code and project maintenance
  • Documentation improvements
  • #913 — replace ingress-nginx which is EOL
    • Switched Kubernetes ingress example/docs from ingress-nginx to Traefik and replaced the old Vagrant example with a new RKE2/Traefik-based environment
    • Fixed malformed indentation in kubernetes/01-volumes-nfs.yml.example for the filescan volume section
    • Removed deprecated Kubernetes example files for ingress-nginx and the old separate NFS-server Vagrant setup
    • opensearch is no longer part of the hedgehog Docker Compose profile, and some depends_on relationships were adjusted accordingly
  • #942 - Fixed mutable default argument usage in Zeek threat feed helper functions (thanks @stef41)
  • #917 — develop IronBank (US DoD) images for Malcolm
• 📄 Configuration changes for Malcolm (in environment variables in ./config/). The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start) automatically handles creation and migration of variables according to ./config/env-var-actions.yml.
  • Added ZEEK_FILE_ANALYZER_TIMEOUT_SEC (default 5) to zeek.env. This is the default amount of time a file can be inactive before the file analysis gives up and discards any internal state related to the file.
  • ZEEK_CLUSTER_BACKEND can be specified in zeek.env to specify the Zeek cluster backend (ZeroMQ vs Broker).
• ❌ Errata
  • Under NetBox → Plugins → NetBox HealthCheck Plugin → HealthCheck the error "unavailable: Unable to connect to Redis: Connection Error" is displayed. This is a side effect of #882 and does not actually indicate a problem with NetBox or its connection to Valkey. This will be fixed in the next release.

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #Strelka #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Malcolm v26.04.1 contains improvements, bug fixes, security updates, and component bumps.

If you are upgrading from an existing Malcolm installation, run ./scripts/status for Malcolm to migrate some settings prior to running ./scripts/configure, ./scripts/start, or other Malcolm control scripts.

v26.02.0...v26.04.1

Note that v26.04.1 is the same as v26.04.0 released last week, apart from the fix for bug #943. If you're already running v26.04.0 and don't use the encrypted install option in the installer ISO, you probably don't need to worry about updating to v26.04.1. The full release notes from v26.04.0 are also included here.

• ✨ Features and enhancements
  • implemented easier way to enable/disable Strelka scanners #935
  • Handle nested file scanning (e.g., from ZIP files) with Strelka #922
  • index selected Strelka result fields #919
• ✅ Component version updates
  • Zeek to v8.1.1
  • Arkime to v6.1.1
  • crytography to v46.0.6 (for CVE-2026-34073)
  • evtx to v0.11.2
  • Flask to v3.1.3 (for CVE-2026-27205)
  • Fluent Bit to v5.0.2
  • Logstash to v9.2.7
  • Requests to v2.33.1 (for CVE-2026-25645)
  • supercronic to v0.2.43
  • yq to v4.52.5
  • Updates for ICSNPP Hart IP parser #924
• 🐛 Bug fixes
  • Hedgehog Linux Breaking on Reboot after Encrypted Quick Install with Multiple Drives #943
  • Fix YAML syntax error in kubernetes/15-redis.yml due to missing end quote #926
  • Using remote elasticsearch data store uses deprecated ssl_certificate_verification setting [https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/issues/915]
  • fix Malcolm API loopback webhook to handle RBAC and non-JSON formatted events #916
  • fix issues in zeekdeploy.sh to handle long crypto handshakes and Zeek's state DB getting out of sync
• 🧹 Code and project maintenance
  • swap redis out for valkey #882
  • pin all third-party GitHub CI actions at known good SHA sums to mitigate things like the Trivy supply chain attack #933
  • some minor tweaks to various Dockerfiles and ISO build scripts to address vulnerability scanner findings
  • some documentation updates
• 📄 Configuration changes for Malcolm (in environment variables in ./config/). The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start) automatically handles creation and migration of variables according to ./config/env-var-actions.yml.
  • Added ARKIME_PCAP_LIBPCAP to arkime.env should uses wish to revert to older libpcap mode for PCAP file processing rather than faster scheme processing (default false)
  • FILEBEAT_SCANNER_FINGERPRINT_LENGTH's default in filescan.env has been changed from 1024 to 512
  • redis.env has been renamed to valkey.env and its variables also have been renamed accordingly
  • STRELKA_SCANNERS has been added to pipeline.env for #935
  • ZEEK_DISABLE_SPICY_ZIP has been added to zeek.env for #922 (default true)

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

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Malcolm v25.04.1 contains new features and improvements, component version updates, bug fixes, and other great stuff.

For these notes, I'm lumping v25.04.0 and v25.04.1 together, as v25.04.1 was released only two days after v25.04.0 in order to update Arkime to v5.6.4 which mitigates newly-discovered remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v25.03.1...v25.04.1

• ✨ Features and enhancements

  • add option to use external NetBox instance (cisagov/Malcolm#597)
  • add -q/--quiet option for start/restart (cisagov/Malcolm#656)
  • handle non-HTTPS arkime case (cisagov/Malcolm#629)

  • lots of improvements to control.py and install.py for Kubernetes deployment

    • improved start/stop/wipe control script behavior
    • allow providing resource requests in manifests via YML file and command-line argument

    ...
    Kubernetes:
      -n, --namespace <string>
                            Kubernetes namespace
      --skip-persistent-volume-checks [SKIPPERVOLCHECKS]
                            Skip checks for PersistentVolumes/PersistentVolumeClaims in manifests (only for "start" operation with Kubernetes)
      --no-capture-pods [NOCAPTUREPODSSTART]
                            Do not deploy pods for traffic live capture/analysis (only for "start" operation with Kubernetes)
      --no-capabilities [NOCAPABILITIES]
                            Do not specify modifications to container capabilities (only for "start" operation with Kubernetes)
      --inject-resources [INJECTRESOURCES]
                            Inject container resources from kubernetes-container-resources.yml (only for "start" operation with Kubernetes)
      --image-source <string>
                            Source for container images (e.g., "ghcr.io/idaholab/malcolm"; only for "start" operation with Kubernetes)
      --image-tag <string>  Tag for container images (e.g., "25.04.0"; only for "start" operation with Kubernetes)
      --delete-namespace [DELETENAMESPACE]
                            Delete Kubernetes namespace (only for "wipe" operation with Kubernetes)
    ...
    

  • improvements to Malcolm's vanilla Kubernetes manifests

    • lowered the amount of storage for the persistent volumes in the AWS EFS example
    • replaced name label with app label for deployments in accordance with best practices

  • improve links on landing page for NetBox and auth to accurately reflect what Malcolm is using

  • added more smarts to the NGINX startup script to dynamically set up upstreams that may or may not exist based on enabled or disabled Malcolm features

  • fixed a minor issue in the script setting up Zeek intelligence updates where it would remove its own lockfile

• ✅ Component version updates

  • Alpine Linux v3.21
  • Arkime v5.6.4 to resolve RCE vulnerabilities, as described below in the #announcements channel on the Arkime slack: * possible to bypass forced expressions for some API calls * direct access to OpenSearch/Elasticsearch could be used to create session documents that hang viewer or have viewer execute code * since Arkime 5.1.0 any arkimeUser user could create OpenSearch/Elasticsearch documents in any index that viewer had access to
  • Keycloak v26.2
  • NetBox v4.2.8
  • netbox-initializers v4.2.0
  • netbox-topology v4.2.1
  • Fluent Bit to v4.0.1

• 🐛 Bug fixes

  • API tokens created in NetBox still require authentication through NGINX reverse proxy (cisagov/Malcolm#383)
  • adjust Logstash health check so K8s liveness probe doesn't kill it (cisagov/Malcolm#630)
  • be more resilient in zeekctl status checks in zeekdeploy.sh (cisagov/Malcolm#652)
  • in deployments with multiple zeek-live containers, each container's restarting causes the others to restart zeek (cisagov/Malcolm#651)

• 🧹 Code and project maintenance

  • document customizing Malcolm with an additional output pipeline (cisagov/Malcolm#643)
  • overhaul "deploying Malcolm on AWS" documentation (cisagov/Malcolm#655)

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network 🖧 traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring 🕵🏻‍♀️.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers 📦, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker 🐋, Podman 🦭, and Kubernetes ⎈. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images 💿 for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux 🦔 can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split 🪓 into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash 🐧 (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell 🪟 (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board 💬 to engage with the community, or pop some corn 🍿 and watch a video 📼.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL #DHS #CISA #CISAgov