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vid: KHV041
title: Exposed Port Forward
categories: [Remote Code Execution]
severity: 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](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/4a6935b31fcc4d1498c977d90387e02b6b93288f/pkg/kubelet/server/server.go)
- [Kubelet - options](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kubelet/#options)