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Exposed Port Forward

HIGH

Source

Kube Hunter

KHV041

kubernetes

Exposed Port Forward

An attacker could read and write data from a pod via the kubelet’s /portForward endpoint. This endpoint is exposed as part of the kubelet’s debug handlers.

Recommended Actions

Disable --enable-debugging-handlers kubelet flag.

Links

kubelet server code
Kubelet - options

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