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User with admin access

Property Value
Language terraform
Severity medium
Vulnerability Type misconfiguration

Description

Granting users or service accounts the 'cluster-admin', 'admin', or 'edit' roles provides them with broad, unrestricted permissions in the Kubernetes cluster, exceeding the principle of least privilege.

Impact

If exploited, users with these elevated roles can perform sensitive actions such as modifying or deleting cluster resources, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data loss, or full cluster compromise.

Resolution

Remove binding for clusterrole 'cluster-admin', 'admin' or 'edit