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Id: 4c415497-7410-4559-90e8-f2c8ac64ee38

Cloud Provider: Kubernetes

Platform: Terraform

Severity: Medium

Category: Best Practices

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Description

Containers must not run with root privileges. The PodSecurityPolicy must set privileged and allow_privilege_escalation to false, and spec.run_as_user.rule must be MustRunAsNonRoot. The group settings fs_group and supplemental_groups must use MustRunAs and their range.min must not allow 0 (root).

Noncompliant policies permit privilege escalation or root user/group IDs, increasing the risk of container breakout and unauthorized host access; this rule identifies PSPs that do not enforce these restrictions.

Compliant Code Examples

resource "kubernetes_pod_security_policy" "example2" {
  metadata {
    name = "terraform-example"
  }
  spec {
    privileged                 = false
    allow_privilege_escalation = false

    volumes = [
      "configMap",
      "emptyDir",
      "projected",
      "secret",
      "downwardAPI",
      "persistentVolumeClaim",
    ]

    run_as_user {
      rule = "MustRunAsNonRoot"
    }

    se_linux {
      rule = "RunAsAny"
    }

    supplemental_groups {
      rule = "MustRunAs"
      range {
        min = 1
        max = 65535
      }
    }

    fs_group {
      rule = "MustRunAs"
      range {
        min = 1
        max = 65535
      }
    }

    read_only_root_filesystem = true
  }
}

Non-Compliant Code Examples

resource "kubernetes_pod_security_policy" "example" {
  metadata {
    name = "terraform-example"
  }
  spec {
    privileged                 = true
    allow_privilege_escalation = true

    volumes = [
      "configMap",
      "emptyDir",
      "projected",
      "secret",
      "downwardAPI",
      "persistentVolumeClaim",
    ]

    run_as_user {
      rule = "RunAsAny"
    }

    se_linux {
      rule = "RunAsAny"
    }

    supplemental_groups {
      rule = "RunAsAny"
      range {
        min = 1
        max = 65535
      }
    }

    fs_group {
      rule = "MustRunAs"
      range {
        min = 0
        max = 65535
      }
    }
  }
}