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vid, title, categories, severity

vid	title	categories	severity
KHV041	Exposed Port Forward	Remote Code Execution	high

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Issue description

An attacker could read and write data from a pod via the kubelet's /portForward endpoint. This endpoint is exposed as part of the kubelet's debug handlers.

Remediation

Disable --enable-debugging-handlers kubelet flag.

References

• kubelet server code
• Kubelet - options