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Shares the Host IPC Namespace

pod-hostipc

severityHigh resourcePods productKubernetes bundles2

Sharing the host IPC namespace exposes the node shared memory segments, semaphores and message queues to the container, letting it read in-memory data and tamper with host processes and other pods that share it.

Rejects unless

!has(object.spec.hostIPC) || object.spec.hostIPC == false

Using hostIPC is disallowed. spec.hostIPC must be undefined or set to false.

Remediation

Remove spec.hostIPC or set it to false. Field: spec.hostIPC.

Applies to

  • pods · v1 · CREATE, UPDATE

Manifest

apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy
metadata:
  name: pod-hostipc
  annotations:
    kubeapt.io/uuid: "29c502b6-a8aa-4cd7-a309-482332dd9a52"
    security.kubeapt.io/displayName: "Shares the Host IPC Namespace"
    security.kubeapt.io/description: "Sharing the host IPC namespace exposes the node shared memory segments, semaphores and message queues to the container, letting it read in-memory data and tamper with host processes and other pods that share it."
    security.kubeapt.io/resource: "Pods"
    security.kubeapt.io/severity: "High"
    security.kubeapt.io/remediation: "Remove spec.hostIPC or set it to false. Field: spec.hostIPC."
    security.kubeapt.io/product: "Kubernetes"
spec:
  failurePolicy: Fail
  matchConstraints:
    resourceRules:
    - apiGroups:
      - ''
      apiVersions:
      - v1
      operations:
      - CREATE
      - UPDATE
      resources:
      - pods
  validations:
  - expression: |
      !has(object.spec.hostIPC) || object.spec.hostIPC == false
    message: |
      Using hostIPC is disallowed. spec.hostIPC must be undefined or set to false.

Save it as pod-hostipc.yaml — the commands below assume that name.

Validate with kubeapt

Check a workload against this one policy, before anything is installed on a cluster.

$ kubeapt validate -p ./pod-hostipc.yaml -r ./workload.yaml

Or without the file, from the published policy set — -r takes a directory too:

$ kubeapt policies download && kubeapt validate --policy-name pod-hostipc -r ./manifests

Or against every namespace in the cluster your kubeconfig points at:

$ kubeapt validate --policy-name pod-hostipc -A