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DET-C2: Confidential VM launched from the debug image or with log redirect

A Confidential Space VM booted the confidential-space-debug image (SSH, debug attestation) or with tee-container-log-redirect, which streams workload output out of the TEE.

Property Value
Severity critical
Platform GCP Confidential Space
Group tee
Log source Cloud Audit Logs · Compute
Related check CSPACE-VM-01: Confidential VM runs SEV-SNP with Shielded boot

Fires when

compute.instances.insert AND (debug/non-CC image OR serial-log redirect) AND instance == workload

How it runs

untrust detect --platform sev-snp reads the project's Cloud Audit Logs over the last --since minutes (default 60).

A match is a detection event with this rule's ID. Upload it to the console to alert on it; see Runtime detections.