Namespace Lifecycle Admission Control Plugin Disabled

Query id: 1ffe7bf7-563b-4b3d-a71d-ba6bd8d49b37
Query name: Namespace Lifecycle Admission Control Plugin Disabled
Platform: Kubernetes
Severity: Low
Category: Build Process
CWE: 284
URL: Github

Description¶

When using kube-apiserver command, the '--disable-admission-plugins' flag should not have 'NamespaceLifecycle' plugin
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: ["--disable-admission-plugins=NamespaceLifecycle"]
  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","--disable-admission-plugins=NamespaceLifecycle"]
      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-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: ["--enable-admission-plugins=NamespaceLifecycle", "--admission-control-config-file=path/to/plugin/config/file.yaml"]
  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"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure