diff --git a/krkn/scenario_plugins/service_hijacking/service_hijacking_scenario_plugin.py b/krkn/scenario_plugins/service_hijacking/service_hijacking_scenario_plugin.py
index 781d3602..58608ba1 100644
--- a/krkn/scenario_plugins/service_hijacking/service_hijacking_scenario_plugin.py
+++ b/krkn/scenario_plugins/service_hijacking/service_hijacking_scenario_plugin.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import yaml
 from krkn_lib.models.telemetry import ScenarioTelemetry
 from krkn_lib.telemetry.ocp import KrknTelemetryOpenshift
 from krkn.scenario_plugins.abstract_scenario_plugin import AbstractScenarioPlugin
-
+from krkn_lib.utils import get_yaml_item_value
 
 class ServiceHijackingScenarioPlugin(AbstractScenarioPlugin):
     def run(
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ class ServiceHijackingScenarioPlugin(AbstractScenarioPlugin):
         image = scenario_config["image"]
         target_port = scenario_config["service_target_port"]
         chaos_duration = scenario_config["chaos_duration"]
+        privileged = get_yaml_item_value(scenario_config,"privileged", True)
+
 
         logging.info(
             f"checking service {service_name} in namespace: {service_namespace}"
@@ -46,14 +48,14 @@ class ServiceHijackingScenarioPlugin(AbstractScenarioPlugin):
                 logging.info(f"webservice will listen on port {target_port}")
                 webservice = (
                     lib_telemetry.get_lib_kubernetes().deploy_service_hijacking(
-                        service_namespace, plan, image, port_number=target_port
+                        service_namespace, plan, image, port_number=target_port, privileged=privileged
                     )
                 )
             else:
                 logging.info(f"traffic will be redirected to named port: {target_port}")
                 webservice = (
                     lib_telemetry.get_lib_kubernetes().deploy_service_hijacking(
-                        service_namespace, plan, image, port_name=target_port
+                        service_namespace, plan, image, port_name=target_port, privileged=privileged
                     )
                 )
             logging.info(
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 06e1883a..1220237d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ google-cloud-compute==1.22.0
 ibm_cloud_sdk_core==3.18.0
 ibm_vpc==0.20.0
 jinja2==3.1.6
-krkn-lib==5.1.1
+krkn-lib==5.1.2
 lxml==5.1.0
 kubernetes==28.1.0
 numpy==1.26.4
diff --git a/scenarios/kube/service_hijacking.yaml b/scenarios/kube/service_hijacking.yaml
index 870ecf9d..c8740d9d 100644
--- a/scenarios/kube/service_hijacking.yaml
+++ b/scenarios/kube/service_hijacking.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ service_name: nginx-service # name of the service to be hijacked
 service_namespace: default # The namespace where the target service is located
 image: quay.io/krkn-chaos/krkn-service-hijacking:v0.1.3 # Image of the krkn web service to be deployed to receive traffic.
 chaos_duration: 30 # Total duration of the chaos scenario in seconds.
+privileged: True # True or false if need privileged securityContext to run
 plan:
   - resource: "/list/index.php" # Specifies the resource or path to respond to in the scenario. For paths, both the path and query parameters are captured but ignored.
                                 # For resources, only query parameters are captured.