Basic Auth File Is Set

Query id: 5da47109-f8d6-4585-9e2b-96a8958a12f5
Query name: Basic Auth File Is Set
Platform: Kubernetes
Severity: High
Category: Access Control
URL: Github

Description¶

When using kube-apiserver command, the 'basic-auth-file' flag should not be set
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: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver", "--basic-auth-file=/path/to/any/file"]
  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: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: ["--basic-auth-file=/path/to/any/file"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
  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: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure