Container is running in privileged mode Affecting Deployment service in Kubernetes
Severity Framework
Snyk CCSS
Rule category
Containers / Access Control
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- Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00605
- credit Snyk Research Team
Description
Compromised container could potentially modify the underlying host kernel by loading unauthorized modules (i.e. drivers).
How to fix?
Remove securityContext.privileged attribute, or set value to false.
Example Configuration
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: myapp-pod
labels:
app: myapp
spec:
containers:
- name: myapp-container
image: busybox
command: ['sh', '-c', 'echo Hello Kubernetes! && sleep 3600']
securityContext:
privileged: false