Outdated GKE Version

• Query id: 128df7ec-f185-48bc-8913-ce756a3ccb85
• Query name: Outdated GKE Version
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Low
• Category: Best Practices
• URL: Github

Description

Running outdated versions of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) can expose it to known vulnerabilities and attacks. To reduce these risks, it is recommended to ensure that GKE is always running the latest version.
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
resource "google_container_cluster" "positive1" {
  name               = "marcellus-wallace"
  location           = "us-central1-a"
  initial_node_count = 3

  master_auth {
    username = ""
    password = ""

    client_certificate_config {
      issue_client_certificate = false
    }
  }

  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }

  min_master_version = "1.24"
}

#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
resource "google_container_cluster" "positive2" {
  name               = "marcellus-wallace"
  location           = "us-central1-a"
  initial_node_count = 3

  master_auth {
    username = ""
    password = ""

    client_certificate_config {
      issue_client_certificate = false
    }
  }

  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }


  node_version = "1.24"
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
resource "google_container_cluster" "negative1" {
  name               = "marcellus-wallace"
  location           = "us-central1-a"
  initial_node_count = 3

  master_auth {
    username = ""
    password = ""

    client_certificate_config {
      issue_client_certificate = false
    }
  }

  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }

  min_master_version = "latest"
}

#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
resource "google_container_cluster" "negative2" {
  name               = "marcellus-wallace"
  location           = "us-central1-a"
  initial_node_count = 3

  master_auth {
    username = ""
    password = ""

    client_certificate_config {
      issue_client_certificate = false
    }
  }

  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }

  min_master_version = "1.25"
}

#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
resource "google_container_cluster" "negative3" {
  name               = "marcellus-wallace"
  location           = "us-central1-a"
  initial_node_count = 3

  master_auth {
    username = ""
    password = ""

    client_certificate_config {
      issue_client_certificate = false
    }
  }

  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "40m"
  }

  min_master_version = "1.25"
  node_version = "1.25"
}