Ingress Controller Exposes Workload

• Query id: e2c83c1f-84d7-4467-966c-ed41fd015bb9
• Query name: Ingress Controller Exposes Workload
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Insecure Configurations
• URL: Github

Description

Ingress Controllers should not expose workload in order to avoid vulnerabilities and DoS attacks
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "kubernetes_service" "example" {
  metadata {
    name = "ingress-service"
  }
  spec {
    port {
      port = 80
      target_port = 80
      protocol = "TCP"
    }
    type = "NodePort"
  }
}

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "example" {
  wait_for_load_balancer = true
  metadata {
    name = "example"
    annotations = {
      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "nginx"
    }
  }
  spec {
    rule {
      http {
        path {
          path = "/*"
          backend {
            service_name = "example"
            service_port = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Positive test num. 2 - tf file

resource "kubernetes_service" "MyApp2" {
  metadata {
    name = "ingress-service-2"
  }
  spec {
    port {
      port = 80
      target_port = 8080
      protocol = "TCP"
    }
    type = "NodePort"
  }
}

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "example-ingress-2" {
  metadata {
    name = "example-ingress"
    annotations = {
      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "nginx"
    }
  }

  spec {
    backend {
      service_name = "MyApp1"
      service_port = 8080
    }

    rule {
      http {
        path {
          backend {
            service_name = "MyApp1"
            service_port = 8080
          }

          path = "/app1/*"
        }

        path {
          backend {
            service_name = "MyApp2"
            service_port = 8080
          }

          path = "/app2/*"
        }
      }
    }

    tls {
      secret_name = "tls-secret"
    }
  }
}

Positive test num. 3 - tf file

resource "kubernetes_service" "example-4" {
  metadata {
    name = "ingress-service-4"
  }
  spec {
    port {
      port = 80
      target_port = 80
      protocol = "TCP"
    }
    type = "NodePort"
  }
}

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "example-4" {
  wait_for_load_balancer = true
  metadata {
    name = "example-4"
    annotations = {
      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "nginx"
    }
  }
  spec {
    rule {
      http {
        path {
          path = "/rule1*"
          backend {
            service_name = "example-4"
            service_port = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
    rule {
      http {
        path {
          path = "/rule2*"
          backend {
            service_name = "service"
            service_port = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "kubernetes_service" "example" {
  metadata {
    name = "ingress-service"
  }
  spec {
    port {
      port = 80
      target_port = 80
      protocol = "TCP"
    }
    type = "NodePort"
  }
}

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "example" {
  wait_for_load_balancer = true
  metadata {
    name = "example"
    annotations = {
      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "nginx"
    }
  }
  spec {
    rule {
      http {
        path {
          path = "/*"
          backend {
            service_name = kubernetes_service.example.metadata.0.name
            service_port = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

resource "kubernetes_service" "example-2" {
  metadata {
    name = "ingress-service-2"
  }
  spec {
    port {
      port = 80
      target_port = 80
      protocol = "TCP"
    }
    type = "NodePort"
  }
}

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "example-ingress-2" {
  metadata {
    name = "example-ingress"
  }

  spec {
    backend {
      service_name = "MyApp1"
      service_port = 8080
    }

    rule {
      http {
        path {
          backend {
            service_name = "MyApp1"
            service_port = 8080
          }

          path = "/app1/*"
        }

        path {
          backend {
            service_name = "MyApp2"
            service_port = 8080
          }

          path = "/app2/*"
        }
      }
    }

    tls {
      secret_name = "tls-secret"
    }
  }
}

Negative test num. 3 - tf file

resource "kubernetes_service" "example-3" {
  metadata {
    name = "ingress-service-3"
  }
  spec {
    port {
      port = 80
      target_port = 80
      protocol = "TCP"
    }
    type = "NodePort"
  }
}

resource "kubernetes_ingress" "example-3" {
  wait_for_load_balancer = true
  metadata {
    name = "example-3"
    annotations = {
      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "nginx"
    }
  }
  spec {
    rule {
      http {
        path {
          path = "/*"
          backend {
            service_name = kubernetes_service.example.metadata.0.name
            service_port = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
    rule {
      http {
        path {
          path = "/*"
          backend {
            service_name = kubernetes_service.example.metadata.0.name
            service_port = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}