Not really unfortunately. A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to add some permission called SYS_MODULE may not know that it could be equivalent to full root access. That's why posts like this are important for education.
Not really unfortunately. A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to add some permission called SYS_MODULE may not know that it could be equivalent to full root access. That's why posts like this are important for education.
...is a social engineering exploit, not a technical one.
> A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to [be able to run some tool/software that says it needs this, but is in fact secretly malicious]
or perhaps more common
> A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to [be able to run some legitimate tool or software, then later a virus in the container taking advantage and breaking out]
for a real world example, the Nvidia Nsight docs specifically direct you to add SYS_ADMIN; do you think your everyday ML engineer would know that doing so poses a security risk if they're doing this on Docker?