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Container is running without privilege escalation control Affecting Pod service in Kubernetes

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    • Snyk ID SNYK-CC-K8S-9
    • credit Snyk Research Team
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    Description

    Processes could elevate current privileges via known vectors, for example SUID binaries

    How to fix?

    Set spec.{containers, initContainers}.securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation to false