Container with low UID

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Id: kubernetes-containers-run-with-low-uid

Platform: Kubernetes

Severity: Medium

Category: Best Practices

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Description

Containers should not run with a UID below 10000, as this may cause conflicts with the host’s user table. A container can inherit runAsUser from the pod; both pod- and container-level runAsUser are evaluated. This rule flags containers whose runAsUser is undefined or set to a UID less than 10000.

Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: security-context-demo-2
spec:
  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 10000
  containers:
    - name: sec-ctx-demo-2
      image: gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 10100
        allowPrivilegeEscalation: false

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: securitydemo
  labels:
    app: web
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: web
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: web
    spec:
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 65532
      containers:
        - name: frontend
          image: nginx
          ports:
            - containerPort: 80
          securityContext:
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
        - name: echoserver
          image: k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.4
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: securitydemo
  labels:
    app: web
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: web
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: web
    spec:
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 19000
      containers:
        - name: frontend
          image: nginx
          ports:
            - containerPort: 80
          securityContext:
            runAsUser: 12000
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
        - name: echoserver
          image: k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.4
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
          securityContext:
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true

Non-Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: security-context-demo-2
spec:
  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 1000
  containers:
  - name: sec-ctx-demo-2
    image: gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0
    securityContext:
      runAsUser: 2000
      allowPrivilegeEscalation: false

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: security-context-demo-2
spec:
  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 10
    runAsNonRoot: false
  containers:
    - name: sec-ctx-demo-100
      image: gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 333
        runAsNonRoot: false
    - name: sec-ctx-demo-200
      image: gcr.io/google-samples/node-hedwfwllo:1.0
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 340
        runAsNonRoot: false

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: containers-runs-as-root
spec:
  securityContext:
    runAsNonRoot: false
  containers:
    - name: sec-ctx-demo-100
      image: gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0
      securityContext:
        runAsUser: 13
        runAsNonRoot: false