Audit Log Maxsize Not Properly Set

• Query id: 35c0a471-f7c8-4993-aa2c-503a3c712a66
• Query name: Audit Log Maxsize Not Properly Set
• Platform: Kubernetes
• Severity: Low
• Category: Observability
• CWE: 778
• URL: Github

Description

When using kube-apiserver command, the '--audit-log-maxsize' flag should be defined and set to 100 or more MegaBytes
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: ["--audit-log-maxsize=50"]
  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: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

Positive test num. 3 - yaml file

apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: dummy
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: command-demo-container
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
        command: ["kube-apiserver"]
        args: ["--audit-log-maxsize=50"]
    restartPolicy: OnFailure
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Configuration
metadata:
  name: dummy-config
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: command-demo-container
          image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
          command: ["kube-apiserver"]
          args: ["--audit-log-maxsize=50"]
      restartPolicy: OnFailure
---
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Revision
metadata:
  name: dummy-rev
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: ["--audit-log-maxsize=50"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure
---
apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1
kind: ContainerSource
metadata:
  name: dummy-cs
  namespace: knative-sequence
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: command-demo-container
          image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
          command: ["kube-apiserver"]
          args: ["--audit-log-maxsize=50"]
      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: ["--audit-log-maxsize=150"]
  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","--audit-log-maxsize=100"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure