Yes, to run tests that root your whole cluster, the test running for conformance grants “root your cluster” permissions.
I occasionally regret the defaults we picked because people get frustrated that random software off the internet doesn’t run.
That said, every severe (or almost every) container runtime vulnerability in the last five years has not applied to a default pod running on OpenShift, so there’s at least some comfort there.
To grant “run as uid 0” is a one line RBAC as assignment. To grant “run as uid 0 and access host” is a similar statement.
https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/test/extende...