services / Azure / Kubernetes Roles (AKS)

In-cluster Kubernetes RBAC Role (and ClusterRole) objects that define permission rule sets within an AKS managed cluster; subjects gain these permissions when bound via RoleBindings.

Roles define the permission surface of the cluster's RBAC; crafting/expanding a role and binding it grants control over cluster resources, workloads, and data.

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The Kubernetes escalate verb explicitly bypasses RBAC privilege-escalation prevention, allowing creation/update of roles with permissions exceeding the caller's own — a deliberate privilege-escalation primitive.

Risks

1. Privilege escalation (CRITICAL)

Scope: CRITICAL

This privilege may grant access to sensitive data from a significant fraction of organizational functions, allow interruption of critical organizational services, or its exploit could lead to significant privilege escalation.

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