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Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation

HIGH

Source

Trivy

5.2.6

Version

1.23

5.2.6 - Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation

Do not generally permit containers to be run with the allowPrivilegeEscalation flag set to true

Control Checks

AVD-KSV-0001 - Can elevate its own privileges

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