April 13, 2024, 7 a.m. | N2K Networks

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Tomer Peled, a Security & Vulnerability Researcher from Akamai is sharing their work on "What a Cluster: Local Volumes Vulnerability in Kubernetes." This research focuses on a high-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes, allowing for remote code execution with system privileges on all Windows endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster.
The research states "The discovery of this vulnerability led to the discovery of two others that share the same root cause: insecure function call and lack of user input sanitization."
The research can …

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