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What is this endpoint?

api/v1/containerd/containers

containerd Container Management

What an attacker could do

An exposed containerd API lets an attacker list, create, and exec into containers on the host, pulling arbitrary images and mounting host paths to break out to the underlying node.

How to defend it

Bind the containerd gRPC socket to a local Unix socket only, restrict its file permissions to root, and never expose the CRI endpoint over TCP or an ingress.

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