Monitor vulnerabilities in Kubernetes/OpenShift

You can keep track of security vulnerabilities in your Kubernetes environments on the cluster and workload pages.

Prerequisites

Vulnerability section

The Vulnerabilities section is displayed on the Kubernetes

  • Cluster details page
  • Workloads page

It shows the five most severe related third-party vulnerabilities and code-level vulnerabilities.

  • Select a vulnerability to view the details and understand the severity and impact of a vulnerability within your environment.
  • For a complete list of the detected vulnerabilities for your Kubernetes environment, select Show all third-party vulnerabilities/Show all code-level vulnerabilities.

Example third-party vulnerabilities:

Kubernetes workload: TPV

Example code-level vulnerabilities:

Kubernetes workload: CLV

If you're missing the security permissions for the selected management zone,

  • On the Kubernetes cluster page, the Vulnerabilities section is not displayed.
  • On the Kubernetes workload page, the Vulnerabilities tab on the notification bar shows Not analyzed.