Kubelet Certificate Authority Not Set
- Query id: ec18a0d3-0069-4a58-a7fb-fbfe0b4bbbe0
- Query name: Kubelet Certificate Authority Not Set
- Platform: Kubernetes
- Severity: Medium
- Category: Secret Management
- URL: Github
Description¶
When using kube-apiserver command, the 'kubelet-certificate-authority' flag should 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"]
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: ["--kubelet-certificate-authority=/path/to/any/cert/file.pem"]
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","--kubelet-certificate-authority=/path/to/any/cert/file.crt"]
args: []
restartPolicy: OnFailure