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Security · Medium severity

Service Has externalIPs Set

Traffic to an arbitrary IP is intercepted by the cluster through a mechanism with no ownership check, which can be used to hijack traffic destined elsewhere.

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3clouds covered
Mediumseverity
Riskwhere it shows up
Manualfix, change spelled out

AWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetes

Found, explained, handed over.

Exposure and fragility, security posture and single points of failure.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Remove externalIPs from the service.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the change already spelled out, so the fix is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
EKS Services on AWS, AKS Services on Azure, GKE Services on Google Cloud
Category
Security. Risky configurations: privileged containers, containers running as root, host networking, ingress without TLS.
Where it appears
The Risk tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule IDs
RC-1763 RC-1863 RC-1963

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