Privileged Container

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Alert on deployments with containers running in privileged mode

Rationale: Containers running as privileged represent greater post-exploitation risk by allowing an attacker to access all host devices, run a daemon in the container, etc.
Remediation: Verify that privileged capabilities are required and cannot be provided with a subset of other controls.

CategoriesDocker CISPrivileges

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CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.8: 5.2.1
DORA EU 2022/2554: Art. 9.2
ISO/IEC 27001 2022: A.8.2A.8.9
NIST SP 800-53 rev. 5: AC-6CM-2
PCI DSS 4.0: 2.2.12.2.67.2.1
SOC 2 2017 TSC: CC6.1

Generated artifacts

3 of 5 targets supported

privileged-container.yaml

apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1
kind: ClusterPolicy
metadata:
  name: privileged-container
  annotations:
    policies.kyverno.io/title: Privileged Container
    policies.kyverno.io/category: Docker CIS, Privileges
    policies.kyverno.io/severity: medium
    policies.kyverno.io/description: Alert on deployments with containers running in privileged mode
    policies.kyverno.io/remediation: Verify that privileged capabilities are required and cannot be provided with a subset of other controls.
    policies.kyverno.io/rationale: Containers running as privileged represent greater post-exploitation risk by allowing an attacker to access all host devices, run a daemon in the container, etc.
    policies.io/source: stackrox
    policies.io/source-id: fe9de18b-86db-44d5-a7c4-74173ccffe2e
spec:
  validationFailureAction: Audit
  background: true
  rules:
    - name: privileged-container
      match:
        any:
          - resources:
              kinds:
                - Pod
      validate:
        message: 'Policy "Privileged Container" violated: Alert on deployments with containers running in privileged mode'
        deny:
          conditions:
            all:
              - key: "{{ request.object.spec.containers[].securityContext.privileged || `[]` }}"
                operator: AnyIn
                value:
                  - true
      exclude:
        any:
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-security
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-azure-logging
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-security
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-oauth-apiserver
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-ovn-kubernetes
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-authentication
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-multus
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-multus
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-image-registry
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - stackrox
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - kube-system
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - istio-system
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-node
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-sdn
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-kube-apiserver
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-etcd
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-apiserver
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-dns
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-machine-config-operator
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-vsphere-infra
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-vsphere-infra
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-vsphere-infra
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-vsphere-infra
          - resources:
              namespaces:
                - openshift-vsphere-infra

IR (canonical)

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  "name": "Privileged Container",
  "description": "Alert on deployments with containers running in privileged mode",
  "rationale": "Containers running as privileged represent greater post-exploitation risk by allowing an attacker to access all host devices, run a daemon in the container, etc.",
  "remediation": "Verify that privileged capabilities are required and cannot be provided with a subset of other controls.",
  "severity": "medium",
  "categories": [
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    },
    {
      "name": "ovnkube-node",
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    },
    {
      "name": "oauth-openshift",
      "namespace": "openshift-authentication"
    },
    {
      "name": "multus-additional-cni-plugins",
      "namespace": "openshift-multus"
    },
    {
      "name": "multus",
      "namespace": "openshift-multus"
    },
    {
      "name": "node-ca",
      "namespace": "openshift-image-registry"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on the stackrox namespace",
      "namespace": "stackrox"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on kube-system namespace",
      "namespace": "kube-system"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on istio-system namespace",
      "namespace": "istio-system"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-node namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-node"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-sdn namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-sdn"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-kube-apiserver namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-kube-apiserver"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-etcd namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-etcd"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-apiserver namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-apiserver"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-dns namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-dns"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-cluster-node-tuning-operator"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-cluster-csi-drivers namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-cluster-csi-drivers"
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on openshift-machine-config-operator namespace",
      "namespace": "openshift-machine-config-operator"
    },
    {
      "name": "coredns-ci-ln-.*-master-\\d+",
      "namespace": "openshift-vsphere-infra"
    },
    {
      "name": "haproxy-ci-ln-.*-master-\\d+",
      "namespace": "openshift-vsphere-infra"
    },
    {
      "name": "keepalived-ci-ln-.*-master-\\d+",
      "namespace": "openshift-vsphere-infra"
    },
    {
      "name": "coredns-ci-ln-.*-worker-.*",
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  "enforcement": {
    "failBuild": false
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  "expression": {
    "op": "criterion",
    "field": "privileged-container",
    "values": [
      "true"
    ],
    "valuesOp": "or",
    "negate": false
  },
  "disabled": false
}

Original StackRox JSON

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  "name": "Privileged Container",
  "description": "Alert on deployments with containers running in privileged mode",
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  "remediation": "Verify that privileged capabilities are required and cannot be provided with a subset of other controls.",
  "disabled": false,
  "categories": [
    "Docker CIS",
    "Privileges"
  ],
  "lifecycleStages": [
    "DEPLOY"
  ],
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      "name": "Don't alert on deployment splunkforwarder-ds in namespace openshift-security",
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          "label": null
        }
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    },
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          "cluster": "",
          "namespace": "openshift-azure-logging",
          "label": null
        }
      },
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on deployment audit-exporter in namespace openshift-security",
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        "name": "audit-exporter",
        "scope": {
          "cluster": "",
          "namespace": "openshift-security",
          "label": null
        }
      },
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    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on deployment apiserver in namespace openshift-oauth-apiserver",
      "deployment": {
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          "cluster": "",
          "namespace": "openshift-oauth-apiserver",
          "label": null
        }
      },
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "name": "Don't alert on deployment ovnkube-node in namespace openshift-ovn-kubernetes",
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          "namespace": "openshift-ovn-kubernetes",
          "label": null
        }
      },
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    },
    {
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          "label": null
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