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Ensure Admission Control Plugin Security Context Deny Is Set If Pod Security Policy Is Not Used

LOW

Source

Trivy

Frameworks

K8S CIS 1.23

RKE2 CIS 1.24

AVD-KCV-0013

Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used

The SecurityContextDeny admission controller can be used to deny pods which make use of some SecurityContext fields which could allow for privilege escalation in the cluster. This should be used where PodSecurityPolicy is not in place within the cluster.

Impact

Links

https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes

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