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Disallow Capabilities

Adding capabilities beyond those listed in the policy must be disallowed.

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Policy Definition

apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1
kind: ClusterPolicy
metadata:
name: disallow-capabilities
annotations:
policies.kyverno.io/title: Disallow Capabilities
policies.kyverno.io/category: Pod Security Standards (Baseline)
policies.kyverno.io/severity: medium
kyverno.io/kyverno-version: 1.6.0
policies.kyverno.io/minversion: 1.6.0
kyverno.io/kubernetes-version: 1.22-1.23
policies.kyverno.io/subject: Pod
policies.kyverno.io/description: Adding capabilities beyond those listed in the policy must be disallowed.
spec:
validationFailureAction: Audit
background: true
rules:
- name: adding-capabilities
match:
any:
- resources:
kinds:
- Pod
preconditions:
all:
- key: "{{ request.operation || 'BACKGROUND' }}"
operator: NotEquals
value: DELETE
validate:
message: Any capabilities added beyond the allowed list (AUDIT_WRITE, CHOWN, DAC_OVERRIDE, FOWNER, FSETID, KILL, MKNOD, NET_BIND_SERVICE, SETFCAP, SETGID, SETPCAP, SETUID, SYS_CHROOT) are disallowed.
deny:
conditions:
all:
- key: "{{ request.object.spec.[ephemeralContainers, initContainers, containers][].securityContext.capabilities.add[] }}"
operator: AnyNotIn
value:
- AUDIT_WRITE
- CHOWN
- DAC_OVERRIDE
- FOWNER
- FSETID
- KILL
- MKNOD
- NET_BIND_SERVICE
- SETFCAP
- SETGID
- SETPCAP
- SETUID
- SYS_CHROOT

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