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medium advisory

AWS EKS Control Plane Logging Disabled

This rule detects successful Amazon EKS UpdateClusterConfig requests that disable control plane logging, potentially indicating defense evasion via compromised AWS credentials or unauthorized administrative access that reduces visibility into cluster activity.

EKS cloud kubernetes aws defense_evasion
2r 1t
high advisory

AWS EKS Access Entry Granted Cluster Admin Policy

Detects when the AmazonEKSClusterAdminPolicy or AmazonEKSAdminPolicy is associated with a principal via the EKS Access Entries API, effectively granting full cluster-admin access and enabling potential privilege escalation and persistence.

EKS cloud kubernetes aws privilege-escalation persistence
2r 2t
medium advisory

AWS EKS Access Entry Modification Detected

Successful Amazon EKS Access Entries API operations that create, update, attach, detach, or delete authentication mappings between IAM principals and the cluster, potentially indicating persistence or privilege escalation are detected.

EKS cloud kubernetes aws persistence privilege-escalation
2r 2t
high advisory

EKS Authentication Configuration Modified

This rule detects modifications to the aws-auth ConfigMap in Amazon EKS clusters, enabling attackers to grant cluster-admin access by mapping AWS IAM roles to the system:masters group, achieving persistence and privilege escalation.

EKS kubernetes persistence privilege-escalation
2r 2t
high advisory

Suspicious Process Accessing Sensitive Identity Files via Auditd

This rule detects suspicious processes, such as copy utilities or scripting tools, accessing sensitive identity files on Linux systems, including Kubernetes tokens, cloud CLI configurations, and root SSH keys, indicating potential credential theft.

Elastic Agent Auditd Manager +4 credential-access linux auditd
3r 2t
high advisory

AWS AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity from Kubernetes SA and External ASN

Detects successful AWS `AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity` calls where the caller identity is a Kubernetes service account and the source autonomous system organization is not `Amazon.com, Inc.`, which may indicate a stolen or misused projected service-account token being exchanged for IAM credentials off-cluster.

EKS +1 aws cloudtrail iam kubernetes initial-access web-identity
2r 1t