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# Avoid Use Of System Masters Group

### More Info:

The special group system:masters should not be used to grant permissions to any user or service account, except where strictly necessary (e.g. bootstrapping access prior to RBAC being fully available)

### Risk Level

High

### Address

Security

### Compliance Standards

* CIS Kubernetes

### Triage and Remediation

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Remediation">
    ### Remediation

    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Using Console" defaultOpen="true">
        Review a list of all credentials which have access to the cluster and ensure that thegroup system:masters is not used.
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

### Additional Reading:

* [https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/registry/rbac/escalation\_check.go#L38](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/registry/rbac/escalation_check.go#L38)