Audit Log Maxbackup Not Properly Set

• Query id: 768aab52-2504-4a2f-a3e3-329d5a679848
• Query name: Audit Log Maxbackup Not Properly Set
• Platform: Kubernetes
• Severity: Low
• Category: Observability
• URL: Github

Description

When using kube-apiserver command, the '--audit-log-maxbackup' flag should be defined and set to 10 or more files
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"]
      args: ["--audit-log-maxbackup=5"]
  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: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

Postitive test num. 3 - yaml file

apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: dummy
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: command-demo-container
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
        command: ["kube-apiserver"]
        args: ["--audit-log-maxbackup=5"]
    restartPolicy: OnFailure
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Configuration
metadata:
  name: dummy-config
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: command-demo-container
          image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
          command: ["kube-apiserver"]
          args: ["--audit-log-maxbackup=5"]
      restartPolicy: OnFailure
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Revision
metadata:
  name: dummy-rev
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: ["--audit-log-maxbackup=5"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
---
apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1
kind: ContainerSource
metadata:
  name: dummy-cs
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: command-demo-container
          image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
          command: ["kube-apiserver"]
          args: ["--audit-log-maxbackup=5"]
      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"]
      args: ["--audit-log-maxbackup=10"]
  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","--audit-log-maxbackup=15"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure