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Id: c48e57d3-d642-4e0b-90db-37f807b41b91

Cloud Provider: Kubernetes

Platform: Kubernetes

Severity: High

Category: Insecure Configurations

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Description

Pods should not be allowed to run with privileged execution. The PodSecurityPolicy resource’s spec.privileged field should be set to false to prevent containers from gaining elevated host privileges. Allowing privileged containers grants broad host-level access and increases the risk of privilege escalation or host compromise.

Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: policy/v1beta1
kind: PodSecurityPolicy
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  privileged: false
  seLinux:
    rule: RunAsAny
  supplementalGroups:
    rule: RunAsAny
  runAsUser:
    rule: RunAsAny
  fsGroup:
    rule: RunAsAny
  volumes:
  - '*'

Non-Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: policy/v1beta1
kind: PodSecurityPolicy
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  privileged: true 
  seLinux:
    rule: RunAsAny
  supplementalGroups:
    rule: RunAsAny
  runAsUser:
    rule: RunAsAny
  fsGroup:
    rule: RunAsAny
  volumes:
  - '*'