Authorization Mode RBAC Not Set
- Query id: 1aa4a1ae-5dbb-48a1-9aa2-630ea4be208e
- Query name: Authorization Mode RBAC Not Set
- Platform: Kubernetes
- Severity: Medium
- Category: Access Control
- CWE: 285
- URL: Github
Description¶
When using kube-apiserver command, the 'authorization-mode' flag should have 'RBAC' mode
Documentation
Code samples¶
Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶
Positive 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: ["--authorization-mode=AlwaysAllow"]
restartPolicy: OnFailure
Positive 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"]
args: ["--authorization-mode=Node"]
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: ["--authorization-mode=RBAC,Node"]
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","--authorization-mode=RBAC,Node"]
args: []
restartPolicy: OnFailure