SelfSubjectReview

Operation	Description	Sample	Rule
create-selfsubjectreviews		Y	N
any-selfsubjectreviews	Synthetic aggregation for rules that filter the selfsubjectreviews resource with no specific verb. Not a distinct audit record; hosts rule listings that key on objectRef.resource alone.	N	N

create selfsubjectreviews

Resource: selfsubjectreviews

Example Audit Event #

{
  "kind": "Event",
  "apiVersion": "audit.k8s.io/v1",
  "level": "RequestResponse",
  "auditID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "stage": "ResponseComplete",
  "requestURI": "/apis/authentication.k8s.io/v1/selfsubjectreviews",
  "verb": "create",
  "user": {
    "username": "kubernetes-admin",
    "groups": [
      "kubeadm:cluster-admins",
      "system:authenticated"
    ],
    "extra": {
      "authentication.kubernetes.io/credential-id": [
        "X509SHA256=9bb0383c49b319fbf6b5ed61ab944378956d4292c784d32244ce2fa4dd846a3c"
      ]
    }
  },
  "sourceIPs": [
    "203.0.113.10"
  ],
  "userAgent": "kubectl/v1.36.2 (linux/amd64) kubernetes/24e2b02",
  "objectRef": {
    "resource": "selfsubjectreviews",
    "apiGroup": "authentication.k8s.io",
    "apiVersion": "v1"
  },
  "responseStatus": {
    "metadata": {},
    "code": 201
  },
  "requestObject": {
    "kind": "SelfSubjectReview",
    "apiVersion": "authentication.k8s.io/v1",
    "metadata": {},
    "status": {
      "userInfo": {}
    }
  },
  "responseObject": {
    "kind": "SelfSubjectReview",
    "apiVersion": "authentication.k8s.io/v1",
    "metadata": {
      "creationTimestamp": "2026-07-02T04:48:59Z"
    },
    "status": {
      "userInfo": {
        "username": "kubernetes-admin",
        "groups": [
          "kubeadm:cluster-admins",
          "system:authenticated"
        ],
        "extra": {
          "authentication.kubernetes.io/credential-id": [
            "X509SHA256=9bb0383c49b319fbf6b5ed61ab944378956d4292c784d32244ce2fa4dd846a3c"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "requestReceivedTimestamp": "2026-07-02T04:48:59.637460Z",
  "stageTimestamp": "2026-07-02T04:48:59.638252Z",
  "annotations": {
    "authorization.k8s.io/decision": "allow",
    "authorization.k8s.io/reason": "RBAC: allowed by ClusterRoleBinding \"kubeadm:cluster-admins\" of ClusterRole \"cluster-admin\" to Group \"kubeadm:cluster-admins\""
  }
}

References #

Sample log: detection.wiki first-party kind capture

any verb on selfsubjectreviews (synthetic aggregation)

Resource: selfsubjectreviews

Description

Synthetic aggregation for rules that filter the selfsubjectreviews resource with no specific verb. Not a distinct audit record; hosts rule listings that key on objectRef.resource alone.