lacework-global-341
note
This policy has been deprecated in favor of lacework-global-652.
See Adjusted Rules - CIS Amazon EKS 1.1.0 for further details.
4.2.5 Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)
Profile Applicability
• Level 1
Description
Do not generally permit containers to be run with the allowPrivilegeEscalation
flag set to true.
Rationale
A container running with the allowPrivilegeEscalation
flag set to true
may have processes that can gain more privileges than their parent.
There should be at least one PodSecurityPolicy (PSP) defined which does not permit containers to allow privilege escalation. The option exists (and is defaulted to true) to permit setuid binaries to run.
If you have need to run containers which use setuid binaries or require privilege escalation, this should be defined in a separate PSP and you should carefully check RBAC controls to ensure that only limited service accounts and users are given permission to access that PSP.
Impact
Pods defined with spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
will not be permitted unless they are run under a specific PSP.
Audit
Get the set of PSPs with the following command:
kubectl get psp
For each PSP, check whether privileged is enabled:
kubectl get psp <name> -o=jsonpath='{.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation}'
Verify that there is at least one PSP which does not return true.
Remediation
Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation
field is omitted or set to false.
References
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy