feat(network): symmetric R0011/R0012 with NetworkPolicy-style internal allowlisting and port-aware alerting

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Ports and NW Policies - twin rules for internal/external nw

replacing the partial PRs #902, #905, #915 (storage companion: kubescape/storage#364).

Feature: Ports alert, Internal and External Network Slices can be selected for allowlisting

Rules — symmetric egress/ingress, no IP-class gate

• R0011 (egress) and new R0012 (ingress) are exact twins: internal and external peers treated alike. Lateral movement to an unlisted internal peer alerts; a serviceCIDR-wide allowlist entry no longer blinds detection.
• Both consume the port-aware matcher was_address_port_protocol_in_*: an allowed address on a violated port alerts; an entry with no ports means any port, computed per-(port,protocol).

Allowlisting internal traffic, NetworkPolicy-style

• Peer selectors: podSelector on profile neighbors, matched at event time (was_selector_in_*)
• Service references: serviceRef{Name}, serviceSelector, entity: host resolve at projection time to ClusterIP + endpoint IPs + the Service FQDN, feeding the ordinary address/DNS surfaces. Unresolvable selectors contribute nothing — never a match-all. Informers are gated behind networkServiceResolutionEnabled (default ON) and strip managedFields/annotations;

measured cost MUST BE REMEASURED

Validation

• Full component-test matrix is now green , please check Test53 specifically

Dependency

go.mod temporarily replaces kubescape/storage with the fork branch of kubescape/storage#364 (schema fields + generated code + loss-guards in collapse/deflate/NetworkPolicy generation). After #364 merges, the replace drops for a pseudo-version pin — no storage release required.

Blocker before merge

must switch the rules OFF by default, even though Test53 is to show how many FalsePositives a user would get if it were turned on.

Difficulties encoutnered

Matching the host - ip turned out to be difficult, so its not used by default (its enabelable) as its costly

Not changed

Rule Definitions and severity (and mitre fields) need to be aligned with whenever we update the rulelibrary, for now this feature must be considered depended on a new rulelibrary release, as R0012 does not exist yet.

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• New Features

  • Added Kubernetes-aware resolution for service references, selectors, DNS names, and host peers.
  • Added port- and protocol-aware ingress and egress network matching.
  • Added destination namespace and pod-label data for network rules.
  • Enabled network service resolution by default, with configurable host-peer alerts.
  • Added support for service-based network policies and loopback traffic learning.
  • Added the Unexpected Ingress Network Traffic alert to default rules.

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected wildcard and literal port handling, including port 0.
  • Prevented invalid or unresolved selectors from broadening access.
  • Improved profile updates as service endpoints and network topology change.

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The change adds Kubernetes service, selector, and host-peer resolution. Container-profile projections now retain resolved network data and refresh when cluster state changes. CEL rules enforce address, port, protocol, namespace, and pod-selector constraints. Component fixtures validate the new behavior.

Changes

Network enforcement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Service, selector, and host resolution pkg/networkpeer/*	Adds informer-backed service and node lookup, service DNS resolution, selector expansion, host-peer expansion, generation tracking, fail-closed selector handling, and resolver tests and benchmarks.
Container-profile projection and cache refresh pkg/objectcache/..., pkg/containerprofilemanager/...	Projects peer selectors and address-port groups, resolves dynamic neighbors, injects host peers, preserves literal port 0, and refreshes cached projections when the lister generation changes.
CEL network enforcement pkg/rulemanager/cel/..., pkg/utils/cel.go	Adds port- and protocol-aware address matching, namespace and pod-selector matching, destination event fields, uncached selector functions, cost coverage, and selector compilation tests.
Runtime wiring and integration fixtures cmd/main.go, pkg/config/..., tests/chart/..., tests/component_test.go, tests/resources/..., tests/testutils/k8s.go, go.mod, .github/workflows/component-tests.yaml	Enables informer-based resolution, adds EndpointSlice permissions and configuration, updates runtime rules and dependencies, adds service and network fixtures, and registers component tests.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a19e0

This PR changes network alert matching and adds topology-based allowlisting, but it is not merge-ready until stale topology generations cannot be marked current and the namespace-scoping and default-rule behavior are corrected or explicitly accepted; otherwise alerts may be suppressed or generated for the wrong peers.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NodeAgent
  participant Informers
  participant ContainerProfileCache
  participant CELRules
  participant KubernetesCluster
  NodeAgent->>Informers: start Service, EndpointSlice, and Node watchers
  Informers->>KubernetesCluster: read cluster resources
  KubernetesCluster-->>Informers: cached services, endpoints, and node IPs
  NodeAgent->>ContainerProfileCache: install InformerLister
  ContainerProfileCache->>Informers: resolve service and host neighbors
  Informers-->>ContainerProfileCache: resolved addresses, DNS names, and generation
  ContainerProfileCache->>CELRules: provide projected profile
  CELRules-->>NodeAgent: evaluate address, port, protocol, and selector match

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[entlein]

Will make the rules broad and OFF by default. I.e. the private ip and localhost filters will be removed

[matthyx]

Reviewed as requested. This lines up with the author's own "NOT READY FOR REVIEW" flag — the networkpeer resolution/fail-closed design (empty selectors → nil, MatchExpressions rejected, ClusterIPNone excluded, gateway IP verified via ipNet.Contains) is sound, but there are concrete blockers before this can merge:

Critical

• go.mod/go.sum: replace github.com/kubescape/storage => github.com/k8sstormcenter/storage v0.0.240-... pins the module to a fork, with the pre-replace requirement left at the placeholder v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000. This is unbuildable for any consumer until kubescape/storage#364 merges and a real pseudo-version replaces it.
• Unrelated dependency downgrades pulled in alongside the fork pin: kubescape/backend v0.0.39 → v0.0.31 and gotest.tools/v3 v3.5.2 → v3.5.0. These look like tidying against the stale fork rather than an intentional change — please restore both unless there's a reason to downgrade.

High

• pkg/objectcache/containerprofilecache/reconciler.go (~L499-510): the cache-invalidation fix reads listerGen() after Apply(...) runs, in two separate calls. If a Bump() happens during resolution, the new generation gets stamped onto IPs resolved against the old view, so refreshOneEntry's staleness check never fires and the stale result is served from the LRU indefinitely — the exact bug this fix was meant to close. containerprofilecache.go (~L618-620) does this correctly by reading the generation once, before resolution — please match that pattern here.
• The widened R0011 (drops net.is_private_ip) and new R0012 ship enabled: true in default-rules.yaml/binding, but EnableNetworkServiceResolution defaults to false in pkg/config/config.go — only the test chart's values.yaml turns it on. On upgrade, existing profiles start alerting on all internal peers with no serviceRef/serviceSelector allowlisting available to quiet them (resolution is off by default). Either default resolution on alongside the widened rules, or ship R0012/the widened R0011 disabled until resolution is on by default.
• pkg/networkpeer/expand.go (~L127): nil namespaceSelector on a serviceSelector resolves cluster-wide ("cluster-wide by design" per the comment), which contradicts both the PR description ("nil namespaceSelector = same namespace, as in NetworkPolicy") and the same-namespace default used elsewhere (network.go's namespaceSelectorMatches). resolveServices doesn't have the profile's namespace in scope to fix this today — serviceSelector: {app: foo} currently allowlists that label across every namespace in the cluster, which is a much broader allowlist than the feature intends.
• RBAC (discovery.k8s.io/endpointslices) only lands in tests/chart's ClusterRole. Per the PR description, the shipped chart lives in kubescape/helm-charts and "needs to be moved" — without a companion PR there, real deployments enabling this feature get informer 403s and silently degrade to ClusterIP-only resolution (the exact failure mode already found and fixed once during this PR's own validation).

Medium

• expand.go's hasServiceFields accepts a ServiceRefNamespace-only neighbor, but specFromNeighbor rejects it — causes permanent re-projection churn for that shape.
• pkg/utils/cel.go's dstPodLabels returns a raw map[string]string while sibling CEL accessors return celtypes-wrapped values — worth double-checking this doesn't break type coercion in CEL expressions that consume it.

No fork images found in shipped config (only a ghcr.io/fluxcd reference in a test fixture, which is fine). Given the go.mod fork dependency alone, this isn't mergeable yet — requesting changes rather than approving.

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In `@tests/chart/templates/node-agent/default-rules.yaml`:
- Line 341: Update the R0012 rule expression to exclude loopback traffic by
adding the destination-address predicate requiring event.dstAddr not to start
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude loopback traffic in R0012.

Line 341 evaluates loopback HOST traffic. The R0012 description says loopback is excluded. The compilation test also includes !event.dstAddr.startsWith('127.').

Restore the loopback predicate in the shipped rule.

Proposed fix

-              expression: "event.pktType == 'HOST' && !cp.was_address_port_protocol_in_ingress(event.containerId, event.dstAddr, event.dstPort, event.proto) && !cp.was_selector_in_ingress(event.containerId, event.dstNamespace, event.dstPodLabels, event.dstPort, event.proto)"
+              expression: "event.pktType == 'HOST' && !event.dstAddr.startsWith('127.') && !cp.was_address_port_protocol_in_ingress(event.containerId, event.dstAddr, event.dstPort, event.proto) && !cp.was_selector_in_ingress(event.containerId, event.dstNamespace, event.dstPodLabels, event.dstPort, event.proto)"

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In `@tests/chart/templates/node-agent/default-rules.yaml` at line 341, Update the
R0012 rule expression to exclude loopback traffic by adding the
destination-address predicate requiring event.dstAddr not to start with “127.”,
while preserving the existing HOST, ingress-port/protocol, and selector checks.

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Asked the AI to review those CTs that have been fluking in this round , maybe we can address some of #908 , prob its just a re-run.

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tests/testutils/k8s.go (1)

135-138: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Retry RESTMapping after a discovery cache miss.

mapper caches discovery per call. ApplyMultiDocDir applies 00-flux-source-crds.yaml and then applies the Flux custom resources in the later files. A CRD becomes servable only after the apiserver establishes it. If discovery for the later file runs before establishment, RESTMapping returns "no matches for kind" and the whole test fails instead of waiting.

Add a bounded retry that calls mapper.Reset() between attempts.

🔁 Proposed retry around RESTMapping

 		gvk := obj.GroupVersionKind()
-		m, err := mapper.RESTMapping(gvk.GroupKind(), gvk.Version)
-		if err != nil {
+		var m *meta.RESTMapping
+		for attempt := 0; ; attempt++ {
+			m, err = mapper.RESTMapping(gvk.GroupKind(), gvk.Version)
+			if err == nil {
+				break
+			}
+			if !meta.IsNoMatchError(err) || attempt == 12 {
+				break
+			}
+			// A freshly created CRD may not be served yet; drop the cached
+			// discovery data and try again.
+			mapper.Reset()
+			time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
+		}
+		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%s %s: %w", resourcePath, gvk.String(), err)
 		}

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In `@tests/testutils/k8s.go` around lines 135 - 138, Update the RESTMapping call
in ApplyMultiDocDir to use a bounded retry when discovery returns a missing-kind
or no-match error; call mapper.Reset() between attempts, retain the existing
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tests/component_test.go (1)

4178-4193: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the ContainerProfile in storage, and gate the rollout on observedGeneration.

Two ordering gaps remain in Test 51:

1. Line 4178 creates the ContainerProfile and line 4181 applies the suite immediately. Test 20 (line 1053) and applyUserDefinedContainerProfile (line 2640) both wait until the profile is readable from storage before they deploy pods. Test 51 omits that wait, so the helm-repo pod can start before the profile exists.
2. waitDeploy checks only ReadyReplicas > 0 && UpdatedReplicas == ReadyReplicas. Both counters still hold their pre-patch values right after the Patch call at line 4185, so the gate can pass before the newly labeled pod rolls out. If no pod carries kubescape.io/user-defined-profile, no profile binds, countR0012 stays 0, listed_client_no_r0012 passes for the wrong reason, and unlisted_client_fires_r0012 fails.

🧪 Proposed waits

 	_, err := storageClient.ContainerProfiles(ns.Name).Create(context.Background(), cp, metav1.CreateOptions{})
 	require.NoError(t, err, "create authored ContainerProfile")
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		_, e := storageClient.ContainerProfiles(ns.Name).Get(context.Background(), cpName, v1.GetOptions{})
+		return e == nil
+	}, 30*time.Second, time.Second, "authored CP must be in storage before pod deploy")
 
 	require.NoError(t, testutils.ApplyMultiDocDir(ns.Name, path.Join(utils.CurrentDir(), "resources/serviceref-suite")),
 		"apply flux source-controller + helm repo suite")
@@
 	waitDeploy := func(name string) {
 		t.Helper()
 		require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
 			d, e := k8sClient.KubernetesClient.AppsV1().Deployments(ns.Name).Get(context.TODO(), name, metav1.GetOptions{})
-			return e == nil && d.Status.ReadyReplicas > 0 && d.Status.UpdatedReplicas == d.Status.ReadyReplicas
+			return e == nil && d.Status.ObservedGeneration >= d.Generation &&
+				d.Status.ReadyReplicas > 0 && d.Status.UpdatedReplicas == d.Status.ReadyReplicas
 		}, 3*time.Minute, 5*time.Second, "%s must become ready", name)
 	}

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In `@tests/component_test.go` around lines 4178 - 4193, After creating the
ContainerProfile in Test 51, wait until it is readable from storage before
applying the service-reference suite, reusing the established wait pattern from
Test 20 or applyUserDefinedContainerProfile. Update waitDeploy to accept the
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In `@tests/component_test.go`:
- Around line 3907-3914: Update the test around the excluded-container exec loop
and the control-profile sentinel so a forbidden exec is issued in the control
pod after the excluded execs, then poll until its alert is observed before
asserting zero alerts for the excluded namespace. Keep the control and excluded
namespace alert counts separate, and retain the existing zero-alert expectation
for the excluded workload.

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In `@tests/testutils/k8s.go`:
- Around line 135-138: Update the RESTMapping call in ApplyMultiDocDir to use a
bounded retry when discovery returns a missing-kind or no-match error; call
mapper.Reset() between attempts, retain the existing resourcePath and GVK
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In `@tests/component_test.go`:
- Around line 4178-4193: After creating the ContainerProfile in Test 51, wait
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reusing the established wait pattern from Test 20 or
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[entlein]

@matthyx : Happy for your thoughts on this at this point :)

[matthyx]

@entlein you still say it must be OFF by default?

[entlein]

Yes, we ll switch it off, when we actually release it. Its just hard to test if they are off :)
I think, that ll go into the rulelibrary PR, right?

[matthyx]

yes

[matthyx]

please open a PR in helm-charts for the same change

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Two more from the re-review pass (leaving the go.mod/storage-fork item as-is since that's already tracked).

[matthyx]

This flips the doc block right above it (and projection_types.go's Namespace field doc, line 105) without changing the behavior — a nil namespaceSelector still matches any namespace, it just now says that's intentional.

But getNamespaceMatchLabels (network_helpers.go:132-139) returns nil exactly for same-namespace learned peers. So every learned same-namespace peer becomes a cluster-wide allowlist by pod labels: a pod I control in a different namespace with matching labels is now allowlisted too. That's the opposite of the lateral-movement protection described in the PR ("a serviceCIDR-wide allowlist entry no longer blinds detection").

Was this flip intentional? If so please reconcile it with expand.go:140 and lister.go:62-70 (also cluster-wide on nil selector) and drop the now-dead profileNs param. If not, this needs to resolve nil to same-namespace as the original comment (and projection_types.go) still says.

[entlein]

So, Namespaces are not used in networkpeers unless needed for disambiguation

Maybe, I should drop them entirely. I actually think, I need to:

The thing is that once profiles are signed, (and they do not depend on ns) , someone might move a profile with a nw-peer name to a different namespace (which is allowed), the signature is still valid, and the detection still works.
This actually doesnt allow lateral-movement, it just allows a service/pod/host of nameA to move from namespaceA to namespaceB and be allowlisted.

AI: please do a side-by-side of testing this supposed namespace move using both the sign ON and sign OFF charts - everything else equal. To confirm or disconfirm the following hypothesis:

• AppA is in namespace A allowlisting each type of internal selector we have in this PR without using ns as selector from AppB in namespace B
• Now, AppB is deployed to namespace C -> nothing should change in terms of profiles of detection
• Then, AppEvil appears using identical selectorname as AppB in NamespaceB
• Then, AppEvil appear using identical selectorname as AppB in NamespaceE

Desired outcome:

• the risk profile for AppEvil should be identical no matter the Namespace
• using signatures, AppEvil should not be able to fake sign the identicalselectorname as AppB

Lets add this as test (the signature chart is currently fork only, so run the sign-OFF here, and the sign-ON on the fork CT)

Then, we know if the whole namespace discussion even makes sense.

[entlein]

Thanks AI, great first step. but you didnt address if we keep the disambiguation or drop the (currently inconsistent) implemenation in expand/lsiter .

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pkg/objectcache/containerprofilecache/containerprofilecache.go (1)

628-630: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Read ListerGen before resolving peers.

At Line 628, c.listerGen() runs after networkpeer.WithResolvedServiceNeighbors(...). If the lister advances during resolution, projected contains the old cluster view but entry.ListerGen and projected.ResolvedGen record the new generation. The reconciler then sees matching generations at Lines 422-429 and skips the rebuild, so stale service or host-peer addresses can persist and produce incorrect R0011/R0012 results. Read the generation before resolution and reuse that value for both fields, as pkg/objectcache/containerprofilecache/reconciler.go does at Lines 498-511.

Proposed fix

 spec := c.snapshotSpec()
+gen := c.listerGen()

 ...
-entry.ListerGen = c.listerGen()
+entry.ListerGen = gen
 projected := Apply(spec, networkpeer.WithResolvedServiceNeighbors(userMerged, c.serviceLister), tree)
-projected.ResolvedGen = entry.ListerGen
+projected.ResolvedGen = gen

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In `@pkg/objectcache/containerprofilecache/containerprofilecache.go` around lines
628 - 630, Read and store the lister generation before calling Apply with
networkpeer.WithResolvedServiceNeighbors in the projection flow. Reuse that
captured value for both entry.ListerGen and projected.ResolvedGen, ensuring the
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- Around line 628-630: Read and store the lister generation before calling Apply
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Re: namespace-invariant peer matching / can a same-selector app masquerade as an allowlisted peer

The concern is real, but the defense doesn't live in namespaceSelector — it lives in the admission-class signature, and the two aren't orthogonal: they overlap through the RBAC/key-custody that decides which key may sign the admission fragment class. A peer is only allowlisted if an admission-class overlay says so, and that overlay is only honored if signed by a key the trust policy trusts for admission. An attacker who copies a legit peer's podSelector still can't get admitted, because they can't sign the overlay that would add them.

I built a truth table for exactly this masquerade and ran it end-to-end on the fork signature CT (bundle-signing is fork-only, so it can't run here on #923 — it's committed as disabled, with these results embedded as commentary + reproducible fixtures). One variable: the key that signs the admission overlay adding app:masq-client. Same selector every row.

overlay signed by	composite root	admitted	R0012 on server
ct-operator (trusted admission key)	dce998…	yes	0 (allowed)
ct-untrusted (not in policy)	2bbc47…	no	10 (blocked)
ct-vendor (base key, wrong class)	2bbc47…	no	10 (blocked)
unsigned	2bbc47…	no	10 (blocked)

The three rogue rows collapse to the identical composite root — the masquerade fragment is dropped as a never-admitted non-member (AssembleAndVerifyPartial: "signer not permitted for class admission" / "fragment is not signed"), leaving base + the benign baseline. R0012 then fires on the server for the unlisted peer and stays silent for the genuinely-allowlisted one.

Implication for the namespaceSelector semantics: signed admission fragments are inherently namespace-portable (a signed fixture can't name a runtime namespace), so the safe model is exactly the identity-based / namespace-agnostic one — the impersonation boundary is the signature + RBAC key-custody, not the namespace. That argues for dropping the profileNs param rather than reverting nil to same-namespace, which I'm doing in a follow-up.

(The disabled test also has a harness-side timing race — the bundle composite's ingress projection lags the exec sentinel, so R0012 landed ~6s past the poll window; the alerts themselves are real, 10 per rogue namespace. Both reasons it stays fork-only-and-disabled are documented at the test.)

[entlein]

@matthyx — on dropping namespaceSelector entirely vs keeping it for disambiguation. My recommendation: keep it (nil = cluster-wide default + explicit selector for disambiguation), i.e. where the follow-up commit left it after removing the dead profileNs param. Reasoning from the evidence:

What the masquerade table proved, and what it didn't. The signature gates authoring — a rogue peer can't be added to an allowlist without the trusted admission key (the table above). It does not cover the runtime label-copy: the matcher does pure label matching with no peer-side signature check (network.go wasSelectorInPeers), so a cluster-wide podSelector: app:frontend is matchable by any pod wearing app:frontend, in any namespace.

namespaceSelector is the only runtime scoping for that gap. It resolves as an equality on kubernetes.io/metadata.name — the auto-label a pod carries iff it lives in that namespace. To match namespaceSelector: metadata.name=prod, the attacker's pod must be in prod, which needs RBAC to create pods there. So it's an RBAC-backed blast-radius limit, complementary to the signature (authoring) defense — not redundant with it.

	keep (nil=cluster-wide + explicit)	drop entirely
runtime label-copy	explicit selector scopes it (RBAC-backed)	widened to cluster-wide, no runtime control
NetworkPolicy parity (the PR's model)	preserved	diverges
cost when unused	zero — nil is the default the learned generator emits	—

Your points are valid — it's a partial impl (metadata.name equality only), the learned generator never emits it, and signed portable overlays can't pin a namespace name. But "unused by default" ≠ "remove": dropping it deletes a real, RBAC-backed capability and adds no security (it removes a scoping knob, it doesn't harden anything), while breaking NP parity.

What would flip me to drop: add peer-side signature verification at match time (verify the peer pod's own identity, not just who authored the allowlist). That closes the runtime label-copy gap and makes namespaceSelector genuinely redundant → drop it then. Until that exists, it's the only thing between an allowlisted identity and a cluster-wide label-copier.

Disambiguation is covered and passing locally — TestWasSelectorInPeers_NamespaceDisambiguation (identical labels in two namespaces; nil matches both, metadata.name=prod matches only prod) plus the ns-scoped peer, right/wrong ns rows in the CEL-eval truth table.

[matthyx]

@entlein — the masquerade-table work is solid evidence for the authoring gate, but I don't think it settles the namespaceSelector question, and I'd like to propose a middle option rather than nil=cluster-wide as the permanent default.

Why the signature argument doesn't cover this. The admission-signature system is fork-only and currently committed as disabled (per your own note on the masquerade CT) — it isn't part of #923. So for the code actually shipping here, there's no authoring-side gate at all. namespaceSelector is the only protection surface that exists in this PR against the label-copy path (a pod anywhere adopting an allowlisted peer's labels). Standardizing on nil=cluster-wide gives that up before the thing that's supposed to replace it has landed.

Why this isn't an edge case. getNamespaceMatchLabels (the learned-neighbor path) still returns nil for every same-namespace peer — unchanged by this PR. Combined with nil=cluster-wide, that means every auto-learned peer ships matchable by any pod, in any namespace, carrying the same labels. That's not a corner case, it's the default behavior of the feature as shipped.

Proposed middle option — flip only the default, touch nothing in learning or signing:

• nil namespaceSelector → same-namespace (what the doc said before this PR touched it, and effectively what the learned generator already means when it omits the field — it knows the peer's namespace at learn time, it's just not writing it down)
• an explicit empty selector (&metav1.LabelSelector{}) → cluster-wide, opt-in. metav1.LabelSelectorAsSelector already treats an empty selector as labels.Everything(), so this needs no new plumbing — namespaceSelectorMatches just needs sel == nil to compare ns == peerNs instead of returning true, and let any non-nil selector (including empty) fall through to the existing LabelSelectorAsSelector path.

This keeps namespaceSelector for disambiguation exactly as you want, keeps NetworkPolicy-parity (moving a signed profile to a new namespace still doesn't false-positive — that's driven by the peer's own podSelector match, untouched here), and closes the label-copy gap on the by-far-most-common learned-peer case without waiting on signing to ship. The same flip would apply to the serviceSelector/lister.go path too for symmetry, though I haven't verified whether that path has an equivalent always-nil generator.

If there's a reason the learned path specifically needs cluster-wide-by-default beyond what the masquerade analysis showed, I'd like to hear it — but that analysis is about a different threat (authoring), which isn't gated by anything in this PR either way, so it doesn't argue for this default one way or the other.

[entlein]

Disagree with recommendation of middle-path (that is: I mostly disagree with myself - not the reviewers)

Why? cause that s the most confusing of paths forward

I think, my own solution curretly is already pretty dumb:

Because the disambiguation works -> BUT: this is actually more of a problem than a solution.
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as it would mean, that an attacker can race for the profile bind and steal the allowlist from the legit peer.

So, I need to retract my earlier statement, and we need to enable the explicit intent:
clusterwide:
egress: type: internal namespaceSelector: {}
namespaced:
egress: type: internal namespaceSelector:{ matchLabel: kube-system}
omitted=same NS implied (and enforced as same NS)
ingress: #no selection here , no mention -> means SAME

The above was derived from the user-story:

How can a user ever actually use such a profile out of the box that was signed off by a vendor, who couldnt possibly know the users ns choices?

• dns
• prometheus
• alertman
  without knowning their namespace -> we must implement the {} syntax to allow for this

Alright, AI: please use our concrete examples for dns and alertmanager to implement and test. Unless Matthias overrides