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# The admission control plugin EventRateLimit is not set misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                                       |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_K8S\_78                       |
| Category - Subcategory | Kubernetes - Native Security Controls |
| Provider               | OTHER                                 |
| Severity               | MEDIUM                                |
| Framework              | Helm, Kubernetes, Kustomize           |

## Impact

Limit the rate at which the API server accepts requests. Using EventRateLimit admission control enforces a limit on the number of events that the API Server will accept in a given time slice.

A misbehaving workload could overwhelm and DoS the API Server, making it unavailable. This particularly applies to a multi-tenant cluster, where there might be a small percentage of misbehaving tenants which could have a significant impact on the performance of the cluster overall.

Hence, it is recommended to limit the rate of events that the API server will accept.

NOTE: This is an Alpha feature in the Kubernetes 1.15 release.

## How to Fix

## *Kind:* Pod \[source,go]

apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1 kind: AdmissionConfiguration metadata: name: "admission-configuration-passed" plugins:

* name: ValidatingAdmissionWebhook configuration: apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1 kind: WebhookAdmissionConfiguration kubeConfigFile: ""
* * name: EventRateLimit
* path: eventconfig.yaml
* name: MutatingAdmissionWebhook configuration: apiVersion: apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1 kind: WebhookAdmissionConfiguration kubeConfigFile: ""

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