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Kubernetes Queries List

This page contains all queries from Kubernetes.

Query Severity Category Description Help
Shared Host Network Namespace
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High Insecure Configurations Container should not share the host network namespace Documentation
Not Limited Capabilities For Pod Security Policy
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High Insecure Configurations Limit capabilities for a Pod Security Policy Documentation
Container Is Privileged
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High Insecure Configurations Do not allow container to be privileged. Documentation
Cluster Allows Unsafe Sysctls
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High Insecure Configurations A Kubernetes Cluster must not allow unsafe sysctls, to prevent a pod from having any influence on any other pod on the node, harming the node's health or gaining CPU or memory resources outside of the resource limits of a pod. This means the 'spec.securityContext.sysctls' must not have an unsafe sysctls and that the atrribute 'allowedUnsafeSysctls' must be undefined. Documentation
Host Aliases Undefined Or Empty
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High Insecure Configurations A Pod should have Host Aliases defined as to prevent the container from modifying the file after a pod's containers have already been started. This means the attribute 'spec.hostAliases' must be defined and not empty or null. Documentation
Shared Host PID Namespace
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High Insecure Configurations Container should not share the host process ID namespace Documentation
Tiller Service Is Not Deleted
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High Insecure Configurations Check if there is any Tiller Service present Documentation
Tiller (Helm v2) Is Deployed
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High Insecure Configurations Check if Tiller is deployed. Documentation
Object Is Using A Deprecated API Version
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High Insecure Configurations Check if any objects are using a deprecated version of API. Documentation
NET_RAW Capabilities Not Being Dropped
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High Insecure Configurations Containers should drop 'NET_RAW' or 'ALL' capabilities Documentation
PSP Allows Containers To Share The Host Network Namespace
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High Insecure Configurations Check if Pod Security Policies allow containers to share the host network namespace. Documentation
Privilege Escalation Allowed
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High Insecure Configurations Containers should not run with allowPrivilegeEscalation in order to prevent them from gaining more privileges than their parent process Documentation
Shared Host IPC Namespace
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High Insecure Configurations Container should not share the host IPC namespace Documentation
Role Binding To Default Service Account
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High Insecure Defaults No role nor cluster role should bind to a default service account Documentation
Tiller Deployment Is Accessible From Within The Cluster
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High Networking and Firewall Check if any Tiller Deployment container allows access from within the cluster. Documentation
RBAC Roles with Read Secrets Permissions
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Medium Access Control Minimize access to secrets (RBAC) Documentation
Non Kube System Pod With Host Mount
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Medium Access Control A non kube-system workload should not have hostPath mounted Documentation
Liveness Probe Is Not Defined
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Medium Availability Liveness Probe must be defined. Documentation
Readiness Probe Is Not Configured
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Medium Availability Check if Readiness Probe is not configured. Documentation
Resource With Allow Privilege Escalation
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Medium Best Practices Minimize the admission of privileged resources Documentation
Root Containers Admitted
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Medium Best Practices Containers must not be allowed to run with root privileges, which means the attributes 'privileged','allowPrivilegeEscalation' and 'readOnlyRootFilesystem' must be set to false, 'runAsUser.rule' must be set to 'MustRunAsNonRoot', and adding the root group must be forbidden Documentation
Container Running As Root
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Medium Best Practices Check if containers are running as root unduly. Documentation
Container Running With Low UID
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Medium Best Practices Check if containers are running with low UID, which might cause conflicts with the host's user table. Documentation
Incorrect Volume Claim Access Mode ReadWriteOnce
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Medium Build Process Stateful Sets must have one Volume Claim template with the access mode 'ReadWriteOnce' Documentation
PSP Allows Sharing Host IPC
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Medium Insecure Configurations Pod Security Policy allows containers to share the host IPC namespace Documentation
PSP Set To Privileged
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Medium Insecure Configurations Do not allow pod to request execution as privileged. Documentation
Workload Mounting With Sensitive OS Directory
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Medium Insecure Configurations Workload is mounting a volume with sensitive OS Directory Documentation
Containers With Added Capabilities
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Medium Insecure Configurations Containers should not have added capability Documentation
Default Service Account In Use
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Medium Insecure Configurations Default service accounts should not be actively used Documentation
Containers With Sys Admin Capabilities
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Medium Insecure Configurations Containers should not have CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability Documentation
Not Limited Capabilities For Container
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Medium Insecure Configurations Limit the capabilities for a Container. Documentation
Seccomp Profile Is Not Configured
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Medium Insecure Configurations Check if any resource does not configure Seccomp default profile properly Documentation
PSP Allows Privilege Escalation
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Medium Insecure Configurations PodSecurityPolicy should not allow privilege escalation Documentation
NET_RAW Capabilities Disabled for PSP
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Medium Insecure Configurations Containers need to have NET_RAW or All as drop capabilities Documentation
PSP With Added Capabilities
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Medium Insecure Configurations PodSecurityPolicy should not have added capabilities Documentation
Ingress Controller Exposes Workload
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Medium Insecure Configurations Ingress Controllers should not expose workload in order to avoid vulnerabilities and DoS attacks Documentation
Using Default Namespace
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Medium Insecure Configurations The default namespace should not be used Documentation
Container Runs Unmasked
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Medium Insecure Configurations Check if a container has full access (unmasked) to the host’s /proc command, which would allow to retrieve sensitive information and possibly change the kernel parameters in runtime. Documentation
PSP Allows Sharing Host PID
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Medium Insecure Configurations Pod Security Policy allows containers to share the host process ID namespace Documentation
Service Account Name Undefined Or Empty
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Medium Insecure Defaults A Pod should have a Service Account defined so to restrict Kubernetes API access, which means the attribute 'serviceAccountName' should be defined and not empty. Documentation
Service Account Token Automount Not Disabled
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Medium Insecure Defaults Service Account Tokens are automatically mounted even if not necessary Documentation
Pod Misconfigured Network Policy
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Medium Networking and Firewall Check if any pod is not being targeted by a proper network policy. Documentation
Service With External Load Balance
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Medium Networking and Firewall Service has an external load balancer, which may cause accessibility from other networks and the Internet Documentation
Network Policy Is Not Targeting Any Pod
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Medium Networking and Firewall Check if any network policy is not targeting any pod. Documentation
CPU Limits Not Set
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Medium Resource Management CPU limits should be set because if the system has CPU time free, a container is guaranteed to be allocated as much CPU as it requests Documentation
CPU Requests Not Set
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Medium Resource Management CPU requests should be set to ensure the sum of the resource requests of the scheduled Containers is less than the capacity of the node Documentation
Memory Limits Not Defined
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Medium Resource Management Memory limits should be specified Documentation
Volume Mount With OS Directory Write Permissions
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Medium Resource Management Containers can mount sensitive folders from the hosts, giving them potentially dangerous access to critical host configurations and binaries. Documentation
Memory Requests Not Defined
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Medium Resource Management Memory requests should be specified Documentation
Shared Service Account
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Medium Secret Management A Service Account token is shared between workloads Documentation
ServiceAccount Allows Access Secrets
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Medium Secret Management Roles and ClusterRoles when binded, should not use get, list or watch as verbs Documentation
Missing App Armor Config
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Low Access Control Containers should be configured with AppArmor for any application to reduce its potential attack Documentation
Cluster Admin Rolebinding With Superuser Permissions
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Low Access Control Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (RBAC) Documentation
Permissive Access to Create Pods
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Low Access Control The permission to create pods in a cluster should be restricted because it allows privilege escalation. Documentation
Docker Daemon Socket is Exposed to Containers
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Low Access Control Sees if Docker Daemon Socket is not exposed to Containers Documentation
RBAC Wildcard In Rule
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Low Access Control Kubernetes Roles and ClusterRoles should not use wildcards in rules (objects or actions) Documentation
HPA Targets Invalid Object
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Low Availability The Horizontal Pod Autoscale must target a valid object Documentation
HPA Targeted Deployments With Configured Replica Count
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Low Availability Deployments targeted by HorizontalPodAutoscaler should not have a statically configured replica count set Documentation
StatefulSet Without Service Name
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Low Availability Check if the StatefulSets have a headless 'serviceName' Documentation
Deployment Without PodDisruptionBudget
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Low Availability Deployments should be assigned with a PodDisruptionBudget to ensure high availability Documentation
StatefulSet Without PodDisruptionBudget
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Low Availability StatefulSets should be assigned with a PodDisruptionBudget to ensure high availability Documentation
Metadata Label Is Invalid
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Low Best Practices Check if any label in the metadata is invalid. Documentation
No Drop Capabilities for Containers
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Low Best Practices Sees if Kubernetes Drop Capabilities exists to ensure containers security context Documentation
Root Container Not Mounted As Read-only
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Low Build Process Check if the root container filesystem is not being mounted as read-only. Documentation
StatefulSet Requests Storage
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Low Build Process A StatefulSet requests volume storage. Documentation
Service Does Not Target Pod
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Low Insecure Configurations Service should Target a Pod Documentation
Dashboard Is Enabled
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Low Insecure Configurations If not needed, disabling the dashboard can prevent from being used as an attack vector Documentation
Image Without Digest
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Low Insecure Configurations Sees if Kubernetes image has digest on Documentation
Pod or Container Without Security Context
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Low Insecure Configurations A security context defines privilege and access control settings for a Pod or Container Documentation
Image Pull Policy Of The Container Is Not Set To Always
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Low Insecure Configurations Image Pull Policy of the container must be defined and set to Always Documentation
Service Type is NodePort
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Low Networking and Firewall Service type should not be NodePort Documentation
Workload Host Port Not Specified
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Low Networking and Firewall Verifies if Kubernetes workload's host port is specified Documentation
Container Requests Not Equal To It's Limits
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Low Resource Management A Pod's Containers must have the same requests as limits set, which is recommended to avoid resource DDOS of the node during spikes. This means the 'requests.memory' and 'requests.cpu' must equal 'limits.memory' and 'limits.cpu', respectively, and all four must be defined. Documentation
Container Memory Requests Not Equal To It's Limits
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Low Resource Management A Pod's Containers must have the same Memory requests as limits set, which is recommended to avoid resource DDOS of the node during spikes. This means the 'requests.memory' must equal 'limits.memory', and both be defined. Documentation
StatefulSet Has No PodAntiAffinity
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Low Resource Management Check if StatefulSet resources don't have a podAntiAffinity policy, which prevents multiple pods from being scheduled on the same node. Documentation
Container CPU Requests Not Equal To It's Limits
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Low Resource Management A Pod's Containers must have the same CPU requests as limits set, which is recommended to avoid resource DDOS of the node during spikes. This means the 'requests.cpu' must equal 'limits.cpu', and both be defined. Documentation
Deployment Has No PodAntiAffinity
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Low Resource Management Check if Deployment resources don't have a podAntiAffinity policy, which prevents multiple pods from being scheduled on the same node. Documentation
CronJob Deadline Not Configured
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Low Resource Management Cronjobs must have a configured deadline, which means the attribute 'startingDeadlineSeconds' must be defined Documentation
Secrets As Environment Variables
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Low Secret Management Container should not use secrets as environment variables Documentation
Invalid Image
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Low Supply-Chain Image must be defined and not be empty or equal to latest. Documentation