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
  • 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