Kubelet Read Only Port Is Not Set To Zero

  • Query id: 2940d48a-dc5e-4178-a3f8-bfbd80720b41
  • Query name: Kubelet Read Only Port Is Not Set To Zero
  • Platform: Kubernetes
  • Severity: Medium
  • Category: Networking and Firewall
  • URL: Github

Description

When using the kubelet command, the read-only port should be set to zero (--read-only-port=0)
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - yaml file
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: joaodanielrufino/kubelet
      command: ["kubelet"]
      args: ["--read-only-port=1"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
Postitive test num. 2 - yaml file
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: joaodanielrufino/kubelet
      command: ["kubelet", "--read-only-port=1"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
Postitive test num. 3 - yaml file
apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
address: "192.168.0.8"
port: 20250
serializeImagePulls: false
evictionHard:
  memory.available: "200Mi"
readOnlyPort: 1

Postitive test num. 4 - json file 
{
    "kind": "KubeletConfiguration",
    "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1",
    "address": "192.168.0.8",
    "readOnlyPort": 1
  }

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: kubelet-demo
  labels:
    purpose: kubelet-demo
spec:
  containers:
    - name: kubelet-demo-container
      image: joaodanielrufino/kubelet
      command: ["kubelet"]
      args: ["--read-only-port=0"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
Negative test num. 2 - yaml file
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: joaodanielrufino/kubelet
      command: ["kubelet", "--read-only-port=0"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
Negative test num. 3 - yaml file
apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
address: "192.168.0.8"
port: 20250
serializeImagePulls: false
evictionHard:
  memory.available: "200Mi"
readOnlyPort: 0

Negative test num. 4 - json file 
{
    "kind": "KubeletConfiguration",
    "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1",
    "address": "192.168.0.8",
    "readOnlyPort": 0
  }
Negative test num. 5 - json file 
{
    "kind": "KubeletConfiguration",
    "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1",
    "address": "192.168.0.8"
  }