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Do not generally permit containers to be run with the allowPrivilegeEscalation flag set to true. Allowing this right can lead to a process running a container getting more rights than it started with.

Risk Level

High

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

  • CIS Kubernetes

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Using Console

List the policies in use for each namespace in the cluster, ensure that each policydisallows the admission of containers which allow privilege escalation.

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