Open source Kubernetes security intelligence

Know what your RBAC policies can do.

Explore the identities and permissions behind popular Kubernetes projects. RBAC Atlas turns complex access rules into clear findings, risks, and paths to investigate.

Built by Lenin Alevski · Updated through automated analysis

Projects indexed
268
Security rules
105

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Threat landscape

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A running view of RBAC risk across the open source Kubernetes ecosystem.

RISK INTELLIGENCE

Risk distribution over time

Last 12 months
Critical 893
Critical risk trend
High 1044
High risk trend
Medium 532
Medium risk trend
Low 5704
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Image CVEs × RBAC

Riskiest combinations

As of 2026-11-07

159 workloads pair Critical/High RBAC with an image carrying known-exploited (KEV) or likely-exploitable CVEs · 55 with CISA KEV CVEs · 56 charts

  1. SA openebs-jaeger-operator Critical image Exploited 7 critical · 186 high
  2. SA minio-operator Critical image Exploited 6 critical · 172 high
  3. SA hivemq-operator-operator Critical image Exploited 4 critical · 43 high
  4. SA k8s-watcher Critical image Exploited 20 critical · 164 high
  5. SA k8s-watcher Critical image Exploited 20 critical · 164 high
  6. SA loki-simple-scalable-grafana-agent-operator Critical image Exploited 17 critical · 155 high
  7. SA vc-vcluster-pro-k0s Critical image Exploited 8 critical · 102 high
  8. SA kube-prometheus-grafana Critical image Exploited 15 critical · 136 high
  9. SA prometheus-operator-grafana Critical image Exploited 15 critical · 136 high
  10. SA prometheus-operator-grafana Critical image Exploited 15 critical · 136 high

CVE data covers 582 of 633 images; 88.1% of CVE IDs enriched by cve.now. Latest stable chart versions, default images only; a CVE in an image is not proof it is exploitable. Full ranking and methodology

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1 accounts 1 workloads 0 bindings Image risk: Moderate

The Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server.

authentik

v2023.10.7
12 Low 2 accounts 2 workloads 12 bindings Image risk: Exploited* · 1 KEV · 21 critical CVEs

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider focused on flexibility and versatility

base

v1.31.0-alpha.0
1 accounts 0 workloads 0 bindings

Helm chart for deploying Istio cluster resources and CRDs

bitpoke

v1.8.19
2 accounts 3 workloads 0 bindings Image risk: High · 4 critical CVEs

The Bitpoke App for WordPress provides a versatile dashboard to create, deploy, scale, manage and monitor WordPress sites in a Kubernetes cluster.

capsule

v0.15.2
5 Critical 3 High 2 Medium 26 Low 6 accounts 6 workloads 36 bindings Image risk: Exploited · 1 KEV · 10 critical CVEs

A Helm chart to deploy the Capsule Operator for easily implementing, managing, and maintaining multitenancy and access control in Kubernetes.

confluence

v2.0.21
1 accounts 2 workloads 0 bindings Image risk: High · 7 critical CVEs

A chart for installing Confluence Data Center on Kubernetes