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Least Privilege User

HIGH

Source

Trivy

AVD-DS-0002

Image user should not be ‘root’

Running containers with ‘root’ user can lead to a container escape situation. It is a best practice to run containers as non-root users, which can be done by adding a ‘USER’ statement to the Dockerfile.

Impact

Links

https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_best-practices/

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