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Identifying vulnerabilities in public Kubernetes Helm charts
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Identifying vulnerabilities in public Kubernetes Helm charts
May 20, 2025
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45min
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.
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Nigel Douglas
Head of Developer Relations @ Cloudsmith
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This webinar will explore the evolving threat landscape around Helm charts in public repositories. From real-world incidents, like the Codecov supply chain attack, to hypothetical attack vectors like "ChartSploit", we’ll highlight how seemingly benign configurations can be exploited. You'll gain insights into the anatomy of vulnerable charts, key risk areas such as RBAC misconfigurations and dependency vulnerabilities, and what recent CNCF data tells us about industry-wide exposure.

Most importantly, we’ll cover actionable strategies for securing your Kubernetes environments, such as:

  • Auditing Helm deployments
  • Verifying chart integrity
  • Enforcing strict access controls
  • Adopting DevSecOps practices that shift security left.

Whether you're a platform engineer, security analyst, or DevOps practitioner, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to identify and mitigate risks in your Helm chart ecosystem.

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