ssl-certificate-management
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Audited by Socket on Sep 16, 2026
1 alert found:
AnomalyAnomalyreferences/automated-certificate-renewal.md
LOWAnomalyLOW
references/automated-certificate-renewal.md
The code appears to be an operational Kubernetes certificate-management job, not malware. It performs cluster-wide reads and annotation patches using a broadly scoped service account. The main risks are excessive RBAC privileges, unintended mass annotation of certificates that are temporarily not Ready, runtime installation from mutable package sources, and use of the mutable `alpine:latest` image. It does not show credential theft, exfiltration, command injection, persistence beyond the declared CronJob, or destructive behavior.
Confidence: 97%Severity: 58%
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