Pod Security Policy Admission Control Plugin Not Set

• Query id: afa36afb-39fe-4d94-b9b6-afb236f7a03d
• Query name: Pod Security Policy Admission Control Plugin Not Set
• Platform: Kubernetes
• Severity: High
• Category: Build Process
• CWE: 284
• URL: Github

Description

When using kube-apiserver command, the '--enable-admission-plugins' flag should have 'PodSecurityPolicy' plugin and the plugin should be correctly configured in AdmissionControl Config file
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: ["--enable-admission-plugins=AlwaysAdmit"]
  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=PodSecurityPolicy", "--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","--enable-admission-plugins=PodSecurityPolicy", "--admission-control-config-file=path/to/plugin/config/file.yaml"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure