Use Service Account Credentials Not Set To True

Query id: 1acd93f1-5a37-45c0-aaac-82ece818be7d
Query name: Use Service Account Credentials Not Set To True
Platform: Kubernetes
Severity: Medium
Category: Access Control
CWE: 284
URL: Github

Description¶

When using kube-controller-manager commands, the '--use-service-account-credentials' should be set to true
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-controller-manager-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-controller-manager","--use-service-account-credentials=false"]
      args: []
  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-controller-manager-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-controller-manager"]
      args: []
  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-controller-manager-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-controller-manager"]
      args: ["--use-service-account-credentials=true"]
  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-controller-manager-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-controller-manager","--use-service-account-credentials=true"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure