Request Timeout Not Properly Set
- Query id: d89a15bb-8dba-4c71-9529-bef6729b9c09
- Query name: Request Timeout Not Properly Set
- Platform: Kubernetes
- Severity: Medium
- Category: Availability
- CWE: 754
- URL: Github
Description¶
When using kube-apiserver command, the '--request-timeout' flag value should not be too long
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: ["--request-timeout=6m"]
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: ["--request-timeout=1h0s"]
restartPolicy: OnFailure
Positive test num. 3 - 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: ["--request-timeout=6m10s"]
restartPolicy: OnFailure
Positive test num. 4 - yaml file
Positive test num. 5 - yaml file
Positive test num. 6 - yaml file
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: ["--request-timeout=300s"]
restartPolicy: OnFailure