GKE Basic Authentication Enabled
- Query id: 344bf8ab-9308-462b-a6b2-697432e40ba1
- Query name: GKE Basic Authentication Enabled
- Platform: Ansible
- Severity: Medium
- Category: Insecure Configurations
- CWE: 284
- URL: Github
Description¶
GCP - Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Basic Authentication must be disabled, which means the username and password provided in the master_auth block must be empty
Documentation
Code samples¶
Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶
Positive test num. 1 - yaml file
#this is a problematic code where the query should report a result(s)
- name: create a cluster1
google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
name: my-cluster1
initial_node_count: 2
node_config:
machine_type: n1-standard-4
disk_size_gb: 500
location: us-central1-a
project: test_project
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
state: present
- name: create a cluster2
google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
name: my-cluster2
initial_node_count: 2
master_auth:
password: ""
node_config:
machine_type: n1-standard-4
disk_size_gb: 500
location: us-central1-a
project: test_project
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
state: present
- name: create a cluster3
google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
name: my-cluster3
initial_node_count: 2
master_auth:
username: ""
node_config:
machine_type: n1-standard-4
disk_size_gb: 500
location: us-central1-a
project: test_project
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
state: present
- name: create a cluster4
google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
name: my-cluster4
initial_node_count: 2
master_auth:
username: cluster_admin
password: ""
node_config:
machine_type: n1-standard-4
disk_size_gb: 500
location: us-central1-a
project: test_project
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
state: present
- name: create a cluster5
google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
name: my-cluster5
initial_node_count: 2
master_auth:
username: ""
password: my-secret-password
node_config:
machine_type: n1-standard-4
disk_size_gb: 500
location: us-central1-a
project: test_project
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
state: present
Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶
Negative test num. 1 - yaml file
#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
- name: create a cluster
google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
name: my-cluster
initial_node_count: 2
master_auth:
username: ''
password: ''
node_config:
machine_type: n1-standard-4
disk_size_gb: 500
location: us-central1-a
project: test_project
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: /tmp/auth.pem
state: present