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MalDet · Static Security Report

k8s-gitops

github.com/xunholy/k8s-gitops
Scanned 29 October 2026 at 10:31  ·  Report generated 29 October 2026  ·  PHP  ·  643 stars
Overall assessment
Medium
Combined score 40  ·  31 findings after filtering

Summary

10 findings likely need attention, 19 look like noise. Most notable: Detects keylogging and input capture patterns [threat-runtime-keylogging] (94% confidence).

Generated from finding counts. A plain-English summary was not available for this scan.

Risk, by type

MalDet scores two different questions separately, because they call for different responses: code can be badly written without being hostile, and hostile code is not always badly written.

Vulnerability
Low (19)
Insecure coding an attacker could exploit. Usually mistakes, and usually fixable in place.
Malicious pattern
Medium (21)
Signs the code may be trying to do harm: hidden payloads, credential access, persistence, exfiltration.

What each detector found

DetectorLooks for HighMediumLowTotal
semgrep Insecure coding patterns across many languages 0 13 5 18
guarddog Malicious package and install-time behaviour 1 1 5 7
yara Signatures of malicious behaviour in source files 4 0 2 6

10 of 31 findings were rated more likely genuine than noise by the classifier.

Evidence

Identical findings are grouped, so a single rule firing many times takes one row. Ordered worst first. “Seen” is how many times that finding occurred.

SeverityDetectorFindingSeenExample location
high guarddog Detects keylogging and input capture patterns [threat-runtime-keylogging] 1 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js:1
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_process_injection — Windows process-injection API sequence 1 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_download_and_execute — Downloads a remote resource AND executes it - the actually dangerous combination, not just downloading alone 2 /kubernetes/apps/base/ai-system/hermes/app/helmrelease.yaml
high yara YARA rule matched: detect_persistence_mechanism — Modifies a startup/scheduling location - legitimate application code essentially never does this 1 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js
medium semgrep Pod may use the node network namespace. This gives the pod access to the loopback device, services listening on localhost, and could be used to snoop on network activity of other pods on the same node. Remove the 'hostNetwork' key to disable this functionality. 3 /talos/integrations/cilium/cilium.yaml:13951
medium guarddog Detects unicode homoglyphs and uncommon characters used for obfuscation [threat-runtime-obfuscation-unicode] 1 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js:1
medium semgrep Found an HTTP server without TLS. Use 'http.ListenAndServeTLS' instead. See https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ListenAndServeTLS for more information. 1 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/main.go:290
medium semgrep In Kubernetes, each pod runs in its own isolated environment with its own set of security policies. However, certain container images may contain `setuid` or `setgid` binaries that could allow an attacker to perform privilege escalation and gain access to sensitive resources. To mitigate this risk, 1 /talos/integrations/cilium/cilium.yaml:13519
medium semgrep In Kubernetes, each pod runs in its own isolated environment with its own set of security policies. However, certain container images may contain `setuid` or `setgid` binaries that could allow an attacker to perform privilege escalation and gain access to sensitive resources. To mitigate this risk, 8 /kubernetes/apps/base/game-servers/cmangos-ptr/app/db-init-job.yaml:27
low guarddog Detects DLL injection and process injection techniques [threat-process-injection-dll] 2 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js:1
low guarddog Detects memory scraping and credential dumping from process memory [threat-process-memory] 3 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js:1
low semgrep When running containers in Kubernetes, it's important to ensure that they are properly secured to prevent privilege escalation attacks. One potential vulnerability is when a container is allowed to run applications as the root user, which could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive resou 5 /kubernetes/apps/base/preview-system/preview-system/app/resourceset.yaml:103
low yara YARA rule matched: detect_downloader — Downloads a remote resource - common and low-signal alone; see detect_download_and_execute for the composite version 2 /kubernetes/apps/base/network-system/dex-k8s-authenticator/app/resources/html/static/highlight.pack.min.js

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