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Azure Monitor Container Insights add-on use nodes/proxy permission

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More here: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/security-bulletins/overview#aks-2026-0003-azure-monitor-container-insights-add-on-removes-use-of-nodesproxy-permission

A [public disclosure](https://grahamhelton.com/blog/nodes-proxy-rce) described how the Kubernetes `nodes/proxy` `GET` permission can be abused to execute commands in any pod on a reachable node via the Kubelet API (port 10250). The Kubernetes Security Team determined this is working as intended; the long-term mitigation is [KEP-2862](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-node/2862-fine-grained-kubelet-authz/README.md), which is GA in Kubernetes v1.33.

The Azure Monitor Container Insights add-on (`ama-logs`) uses `nodes/proxy` on AKS causing security risk.

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