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vid, title, categories, severity

vid	title	categories	severity
KHV046	Exposed Kubelet Cmdline	Information Disclosure	high

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Issue description

When the Kubelet is run in debug mode, a Pod running in the cluster is able to access the Kubelet's debug/pprof/cmdline endpoint and examine how the kubelet was executed on the node, specifically the command line flags that were used, which tells the attacker about what capabilities the kubelet has which might be exploited.

Remediation

Disable --enable-debugging-handlers kubelet flag.

References

• cmdline handler in Kubelet code
• Kubelet - options