GHSA-JHJP-4C2Q-XMX4 k8saudit shipped rules do not detect privileged/sensitive settings on init or ephemeral containers

The k8saudit plugin's per-container fields ka.req.pod.containers. and the shipped k8sauditrules.yaml evaluated only requestObject.spec.containers. Security-relevant settings on a pod's initContainers or ephemeralContainers were not inspected, so the shipped Create Privileged Pod rule did not fire...

CVE-2023-1260

An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in kube-apiserver. This issue could allow a remote, authenticated attacker who has been given permissions "update, patch" the "pods/ephemeralcontainers" subresource beyond what the default is. They would then need to create a new pod or patch...

CVE-2023-1260: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in kube-apiserver. This issue could allow a remote, authenticated attacker who has been given permissions "update, patch" the "pods/ephemeralcontainers" subresource beyond what the default is. They would then need to create a new pod or patch...

CVE-2023-2728

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field...