The security-inspector component is essential for performing security inspections. This topic describes its features, usage notes, and release notes.
Overview
You can use security-inspector to scan workload configurations across multiple dimensions. This helps you understand in real time whether your applications have security risks. The following figure shows the architecture of the security-inspector component.
Usage notes
The security-inspector component currently supports secure configuration inspection.
You can use Polaris with security-inspector to scan workload configurations in your cluster for security risks in real time.
NotePolaris is an open source tool that scans workload configurations in a Kubernetes cluster for security risks. For more information, see Polaris.
security-inspector scans workload configurations across multiple dimensions. You can view inspection results in the report, which include health checks, images, networks, resources, and security details. This helps you understand in real time whether your running applications have insecure configurations and provides security hardening recommendations. For more information, see Use configuration inspection to check workloads in an ACK cluster.
Release notes
December 2025
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.16.7 | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.7 | 2025-12-03 | Upgrade the Go version used by the component to 1.24.11 to improve stability. | No impact on business. |
August 2025
Version number | Registry Address | Change date | Changes | Impact |
v0.16.6 | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.6 | August 11, 2025 | Upgrade the Golang version used by the component to 1.24.6 to improve stability. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2025
Version Number | Registry Address | Change Time | Change Content | Change Impact |
v0.16.5.2-gffa860c-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.5.2-gffa860c-aliyun | July 09, 2025 | Upgrade the component's Golang version to 1.24.4 to improve stability. | This upgrade will not affect services. |
April 2025
Version number | Registry Address | Change date | Changes | Impact |
v0.16.3.3-ge515753-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.3.3-ge515753-aliyun | April 16, 2025 | Upgrade the Go version used by the component to 1.24.2 to improve stability. | This upgrade has no impact on your workloads. |
v0.16.2.0-gbce6b15-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.2.0-gbce6b15-aliyun | April 9, 2025 | Fix a crash issue in the component pod when resources in the security-inspector namespace are deleted. The new version logs error messages in the component container logs instead. | This upgrade has no impact on your workloads. |
March 2025
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.16.1.0-gea4d02f-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.1.0-gea4d02f-aliyun | 2025-03-18 | Upgrade the Go version used by the component to 1.23.7 to improve stability. | No impact on business. |
January 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.16.0.0-g4e93dcd-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.16.0.0-g4e93dcd-aliyun | 2025-01-02 | Upgrade the Go version used by the component to 1.23.4 to improve stability. | No impact on business. |
October 2024
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.15.0.0-g4218661-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.15.0.0-g4218661-aliyun | 2024-10-10 | Add support for checking whether plaintext AccessKey pairs are stored in environment variables. | No impact on business. |
August 2024
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.14.1.0-g829a93d-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.14.1.0-g829a93d-aliyun | 2024-08-01 | Improve version compatibility. | No impact on business. |
July 2024
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.14.0.0-gfc02c67-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.14.0.0-gfc02c67-aliyun | 2024-07-26 | Starting with this version, inspection tasks run in the security-inspector namespace. | No impact on business. |
March 2024
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.13.0.0-g88dfa8f-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.13.0.0-g88dfa8f-aliyun | 2024-03-26 | Expand RBAC-related inspection items, including wildcard detection, cluster-admin role detection, and detection of modifications to default cluster roles such as system:basic-user, system:discovery, and system:public-info-viewer. | No impact on business. |
February 2024
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.12.0.7-g6f9d47f-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.12.0.7-g6f9d47f-aliyun | 2024-02-21 | Add support for configuring whether the component uses the host network and modifying the health check port on the Add-ons page. | No impact on business. |
December 2023
Version | Registry Address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.11.0.3-ga2fad87-aliyun | registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.11.0.3-ga2fad87-aliyun | 2023-12-21 | Preserve user modifications to the ttlSecondsAfterFinished configuration item of security-inspector-polaris-cronjob during component upgrades. | No impact on business. |
June 2023
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.10.1.2-g13c9de7-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.10.1.2-g13c9de7-aliyun | 2023-06-02 |
| No impact on business. |
April 2023
Version | Registry Address | Last Modified | Changes | Change Impact |
v0.10.0.3-g15b35c4-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.10.0.3-g15b35c4-aliyun | 2023-04-13 | Add support for Kubernetes 1.26. | No impact on business. |
February 2023
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.9.1.0-gcdddfa7-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.9.1.0-gcdddfa7-aliyun | 2023-02-27 | Fix CVE-2023-0286 in the base image used by the component image. | No impact on business. |
December 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Change impact |
v0.9.0.0-g1d38ec6-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.9.0.0-g1d38ec6-aliyun | 2022-12-22 |
| No impact on business. |
v0.8.3.2-ge5496db-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.8.3.2-ge5496db-aliyun | 2022-12-13 | This version is in canary release. Speed up program initialization to resolve the issue where inspection tasks could not run immediately after component installation. | No impact on business. |
August 2022
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.8.3.1-gf7bf0e0-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.8.3.1-gf7bf0e0-aliyun | 2022-08-30 | Improve message content for | No impact on business. |
June 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.8.2.16-gc84d60d-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.8.2.16-gc84d60d-aliyun | 2022-06-21 |
| No impact on business. |
April 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.8.1.0-g58d1a56-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.8.1.0-g58d1a56-aliyun | 2022-04-11 |
| No impact on business. |
February 2022
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.8.0.0-gb0edd1d-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.8.0.0-gb0edd1d-aliyun | 2022-02-15 |
| No impact on business. |
December 2021
Version | Image address | Change Time | Change Content | Impact |
v0.7.0.5-g8cc37b6-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.7.0.5-g8cc37b6-aliyun | 2021-12-03 |
| No impact on business. |
September 2021
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.6.0.4-gc12ad66-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.6.0.4-gc12ad66-aliyun | 2021-09-20 |
| No impact on business. |
June 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.5.0.2-g5e33765-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.5.0.2-g5e33765-aliyun | 2021-06-24 | Fix an issue where report data displayed incorrectly when multiple clusters used the same SLS project. | No impact on business. |
March 2021
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.4.0.0-g541eb31-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.4.0.0-g541eb31-aliyun | 2021-03-15 |
| No impact on business. |
January 2021
Version number | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.3.0.2-gcb49252-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.3.0.2-gcb49252-aliyun | 2021-01-05 | Add support for scanning anonymous user access permissions to identify insecure RBAC permission configurations. | No impact on business. |
December 2020
Version | Image address | Change Time | Content updates | Impact |
v0.2.0.22-gd1fbaff-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.2.0.22-gd1fbaff-aliyun | 2020-12-16 |
| No impact on business. |
July 2020
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v0.1.0.3-g69f71f6-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/security-inspector:v0.1.0.3-g69f71f6-aliyun | 2020-07-06 | Manually trigger configuration inspection tasks to check workloads in your cluster and generate inspection reports. | No impact on business. |