GKE Using Default Service Account

• Query id: 1c8eef02-17b1-4a3e-b01d-dcc3292d2c38
• Query name: GKE Using Default Service Account
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Insecure Defaults
• URL: Github

Description

Kubernetes Engine Clusters should not be configured to use the default service account
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "google_container_cluster" "positive1" {
  name     = "my-gke-cluster"
  location = "us-central1"
  remove_default_node_pool = true
  initial_node_count       = 1

  node_config {
    oauth_scopes = [
      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
    ]
    labels = {
      foo = "bar"
    }
    tags = ["foo", "bar"]
  }
  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }
}

Postitive test num. 2 - tf file

resource "google_container_cluster" "positive2" {
  name     = "my-gke-cluster"
  location = "us-central1"
  remove_default_node_pool = true
  initial_node_count       = 1

  node_config {
    service_account = google_service_account.default.email
    oauth_scopes = [
      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
    ]
    labels = {
      foo = "bar"
    }
    tags = ["foo", "bar"]
  }
  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "google_container_cluster" "negative1" {
  name     = "my-gke-cluster"
  location = "us-central1"
  remove_default_node_pool = true
  initial_node_count       = 1

  node_config {
    service_account = google_service_account.myserviceaccount.email
    oauth_scopes = [
      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
    ]
    labels = {
      foo = "bar"
    }
    tags = ["foo", "bar"]
  }
  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }
}