fix(security): narrow C-0013 to the mutated namespace set - #3698
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C-0013 was held cluster-wide by one measured gap: tofu-controller, the sixth flux-system workload, had no runAsGroup at container or pod level. #3480 retired that workload (closed 2026-09-08), so the gap closed by deletion. Verified live per workload before narrowing: flux-system now holds exactly five pod-bearing workloads and all five read C-0013 passed with an EMPTY subStatus and appliedIgnoreRules null — the discriminator that separates a genuine pass from an exception-suppressed one. The stored Deployment specs corroborate it independently of the scanner (flux-operator runAsGroup 65532, the four controllers 65534). The other excluded namespaces carrying scanned workloads — longhorn-system, observability and velero — are already excepted for C-0013 in infrastructure-privileged.yaml, so the narrowing surfaces nothing. Kubescape does not prune scan records for deleted objects (#3697), so seven tofu/tf-runner records survive in flux-system. None is a workload — they are Secrets, ServiceAccounts, a Role and a RoleBinding — so none carries C-0013. The check was made by kind rather than by absence from the scan set, which on this surface would have been false. The documented-guard negative control moves to C-0211, the control this file still suppresses; a well-formed id the file no longer documents would fail for the wrong reason and read as a regex regression. Ablation confirms it still catches one. Fixes #3223 Signed-off-by: Nikolai Emil Damm <nikolaiemildamm@icloud.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change moves C-0013 from the cluster-wide exception to the namespace-scoped Priority: ➖ Normal Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to C-0013 is narrowed to the namespace-scoped exception, reducing its cluster-wide security exemption. The retained C-0211 documentation should be updated to avoid presenting retired workload data as current before merge. Important Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional. ❌ Failed checks (1 error)
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The pull request moves C-0013 to the namespace-scoped exception, but the linked issue also requires all six flux-system controllers to set securityContext.runAsGroup and pass C-0013 on the pre-exception scan surface. The provided changes do not show those controller updates or verification. Resolution Implement or provide evidence for securityContext.runAsGroup on all six controllers, verify that C-0013 passes for all six on the pre-exception scan surface, and then retain the namespace-scoped exception change with an upward compliance re-baseline. [ Thanks for using CodeRabbit! It's free for OSS, and your support helps us grow. If you like it, consider giving us a shout-out. Comment |
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- Around line 91-92: Update the admission-stage documentation in the exception
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3082
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/coroot/cron-job-cnpg-degraded-alert.yaml:113-120
Timestamp: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations.yaml (1)
17-18: LGTM!Also applies to: 20-23, 34-58, 99-100
k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yaml (1)
5-16: LGTM!Also applies to: 25-26, 129-131, 137-140
k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yaml (1)
684-686: LGTM!Also applies to: 694-694, 715-715
scripts/tests/test-guard-pod-security-exception-documented.sh (1)
177-182: LGTM!Also applies to: 184-184
The header called allowPrivilegeEscalation, dropped capabilities and seccompProfile 'pod-level' fields injected 'at pod admission'. The add-security-context policy injects the first two only on containers, and the header also omitted the C-0013 fields (runAsNonRoot, runAsUser, runAsGroup) that this exception now narrows. Both halves of the file now describe one admission-stage model, matching the policy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Valid, and the header was wrong on two counts rather than merely inconsistent with the reason. Checked against the policy itself (
Fixed in 7b8f1b7: the header now names both stages and both field sets, so it and the |
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- Around line 10-16: Update the C-0211 population rationale comments to remove
stale references to tofu-controller as pending or current, and reconcile the
stated workload counts with the post-retirement measurement; if retaining prior
counts, explicitly label them as historical baseline data. Review related YAML
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3082
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/coroot/cron-job-cnpg-degraded-alert.yaml:113-120
Timestamp: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
Learning: When changing behavior in Kubernetes manifests or related documentation, review comments and documentation in YAML/YML and Markdown files for statements describing the previous behavior. Update every stale statement in the same change so the repository’s explanatory text remains consistent with the implementation.
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations.yaml
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations.yaml (1)
2-5: LGTM!Also applies to: 18-24, 35-59, 92-101
k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yaml (1)
684-686: LGTM!Also applies to: 694-694, 715-715
scripts/tests/test-guard-pod-security-exception-documented.sh (1)
177-182: LGTM!Also applies to: 184-184
…ntroller removal The C-0211 rationale still described tofu-controller as 'pending removal in #3480', but #3480 closed on 2026-09-08. Updated to past tense and noted the population dropped from 35 to 34 (flux-system from 6 to 5). The 2026-09-02 measurement is now annotated as a pre-removal baseline. Resolves CodeRabbit review finding on this PR.
Resolved the stale C-0211 population rationale finding. Requesting a fresh review at the new head. @coderabbitai review |
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echo '== Referenced file outlines =='
ast-grep outline k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/add-security-context.yaml --items all || true
ast-grep outline scripts/tests/test-guard-pod-security-exception-documented.sh --items all || true
echo '== Security-context policy =='
cat -n k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/add-security-context.yaml
echo '== Current exception declarations =='
cat -n k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations.yaml
cat -n k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yaml
echo '== Controller exception policies =='
cat -n k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yaml
echo '== Documentation guard test =='
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set -euo pipefail
echo '== C-0211 and tofu-controller references in changed security-exception context =='
rg -n -C 2 '(C-0211|tofu-controller|35 of 35|29 of 35|flux-system 6|flux-system 5|sized at 35|population)' \
k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions \
k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yaml
echo '== Locate and inspect scope/documentation guard implementations =='
fd -t f 'guard-pod-security-exception-(scope|documented)\.sh$' scripts -x sh -c '
echo "---- $1 ----"
cat -n "$1"
' sh {}
echo '== Shell syntax validation only; scripts are not executed =='
bash -n scripts/tests/test-guard-pod-security-exception-documented.sh
fd -t f 'guard-pod-security-exception-(scope|documented)\.sh$' scripts -x bash -n {}
echo '== YAML parsing and source-to-mirror consistency check =='
python3 - <<'PY'
import json
import subprocess
source_paths = [
"k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations.yaml",
"k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yaml",
]
def yq_json(path):
return json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["yq", "-o=json", path], text=True))
sources = {doc["metadata"]["name"]: doc for doc in map(yq_json, source_paths)}
config_map = yq_json("k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yaml")
policies = json.loads(config_map["data"]["exceptionPolicies"])
mirrors = {policy["name"]: policy for policy in policies}
for name, source in sources.items():
mirror = mirrors[name]
source_ids = [entry["controlID"] for entry in source["spec"]["posture"]]
mirror_ids = [entry["controlID"] for entry in mirror["posturePolicies"]]
assert mirror_ids == [f"^{control_id}$" for control_id in source_ids], (name, source_ids, mirror_ids)
assert mirror["reason"] == source["spec"]["reason"], (name, "reason differs")
print(f"{name}: source and Headlamp mirror match ({', '.join(source_ids)})")
PYLength of output: 53584
Update the reason to use the current count, or explicitly label 35 as the dated pre-removal baseline. This keeps the exception rationale internally consistent. Shell syntax checks passed. YAML parsing and source-to-mirror verification were inconclusive because
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Label the 35-workload C-0211 residual population figure in spec.reason as the 2026-09-02 pre-removal baseline and update the post-tofu-controller count to 34 in both pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yaml and its generated Headlamp ConfigMap mirror. Resolves CodeRabbit review finding on #3698. Signed-off-by: Nikolai Emil Damm <nikolaiemildamm@icloud.com>
Addressed CodeRabbit review finding: labeled the 35-workload C-0211 population in spec.reason as the 2026-09-02 pre-removal baseline and updated the current count to 34 in both pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yaml and its generated Headlamp ConfigMap mirror. Requesting review at the new head. @coderabbitai review |
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions \
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import yaml
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source_path = Path("k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-security-exceptions/pod-security-mutations-unscoped.yaml")
mirror_path = Path("k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/config-map-headlamp-exceptions.yaml")
source = yaml.safe_load(source_path.read_text())
config_map = yaml.safe_load(mirror_path.read_text())
policies = yaml.safe_load(config_map["data"]["exceptionPolicies"])
mirror = next(policy for policy in policies if policy["name"] == source["metadata"]["name"])
assert mirror["reason"] == source["spec"]["reason"], "The Headlamp mirror reason differs from the source reason"
assert mirror["posturePolicies"] == [
f"^{entry['controlID']}$" for entry in source["spec"]["posture"]
], "The Headlamp posture policies differ from the source posture"
print("YAML parses. Source and Headlamp mirror match.")
print(f"reason: {source['spec']['reason']}")
PYLength of output: 120194
No new findings. The C-0211 reason now states the current population as 34. It identifies 35 as the 2026-09-02 pre-removal baseline. The source declaration and the Headlamp mirror use identical reason text. YAML semantic parsing was not available in this sandbox. If you found this review helpful, would you consider giving us a shout-out on X? Thank you for using CodeRabbit! You are interacting with an AI system. |
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Why
The C-0013 security control (non-root containers) has been suppressed cluster-wide, and not because it needed to be — a single retired workload failed it, so the exception was left wide until that workload went away. It has now gone, which means we are currently hiding this control everywhere, including in namespaces where nothing justifies it.
What
Moves C-0013 out of the cluster-wide exception and into the namespace-scoped one, alongside the two controls already narrowed there. This raises the security floor and costs nothing operationally: it was verified against the live cluster first, and it surfaces no new findings, so no one has to fix anything to absorb it.
The everyday path is unchanged — no new gate, no new step, and the compliance score moves up rather than down.
Fixes #3223