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Kubernetes RBAC Misconfiguration

Critical · Access Control · CWE-269

Description

Over-broad Roles/ClusterRoleBindings.

Root cause

cluster-admin for workloads/users.

Impact

Secret theft, workload takeover.

Detection

RBAC review; kubectl auth can-i.

Mitigation

Least-privilege Roles; separate namespaces.

Secure coding

Audit RBAC with tools; policy-as-code.

Safe lab example

lab-k8s-rbac

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