Identifying vulnerabilities in public Kubernetes Helm charts
As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, Helm charts have become a de facto standard for deploying applications at scale. However, with this convenience comes significant security risks. Public Helm charts, often used without thorough inspection, can hold a wide variety of misconfigurations, insecure defaults, and vulnerable dependencies, providing attackers with opportunities for privilege escalation, data exfiltration, or even full-cluster compromise.