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Grants Broad Access to Nodes and Cluster Storage

clusterrole-infra-cluster-resources

severityHigh resourceClusterRoles productKubernetes bundles1

Reading or proxying nodes exposes kubelet endpoints and every workload placed on them, while write access to persistent volumes, storage classes and namespaces lets a caller mount host paths and stage pods outside guarded namespaces.

Rejects unless

!has(object.rules) || object.rules.all(r,
  !(
    (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
     r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
     r.resources.exists(res, variables.nodeResources.exists(nr, nr == res)) &&
     r.verbs.exists(v, variables.readVerbs.exists(rv, rv == v))) ||
    (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
     r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
     r.resources.exists(res, variables.pvResources.exists(pr, pr == res)) &&
     r.verbs.exists(v, variables.writeVerbs.exists(wv, wv == v))) ||
    (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
     r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
     r.resources.exists(res, variables.storageResources.exists(sr, sr == res)) &&
     r.verbs.exists(v, variables.writeVerbs.exists(wv, wv == v))) ||
    (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
     r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
     r.resources.exists(res, variables.namespaceResources.exists(nsr, nsr == res)) &&
     r.verbs.exists(v, variables.writeVerbs.exists(wv, wv == v)))
  )
)

ClusterRoles must not grant broad access to nodes (read/proxy), persistent volumes, storageclasses, or namespace create/update/patch/delete.

Variables

nodeResources

["nodes","nodes/proxy","nodes/log","nodes/metrics"]

pvResources

["persistentvolumes"]

storageResources

["storageclasses"]

namespaceResources

["namespaces"]

writeVerbs

["create","update","patch","delete","proxy"]

readVerbs

["get","list","watch","proxy"]

Remediation

Drop get, list, watch and proxy on nodes and its proxy, log and metrics subresources, and drop create, update, patch, delete and proxy on persistentvolumes, storageclasses and namespaces. Fields: rules[*].apiGroups, rules[*].resources, rules[*].verbs.

Applies to

  • clusterroles · rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 · CREATE, UPDATE

Manifest

apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy
metadata:
  name: clusterrole-infra-cluster-resources
  annotations:
    kubeapt.io/uuid: "de80e01b-df84-4253-b44c-6cd8dfad2e7d"
    security.kubeapt.io/displayName: "Grants Broad Access to Nodes and Cluster Storage"
    security.kubeapt.io/description: "Reading or proxying nodes exposes kubelet endpoints and every workload placed on them, while write access to persistent volumes, storage classes and namespaces lets a caller mount host paths and stage pods outside guarded namespaces."
    security.kubeapt.io/resource: "ClusterRoles"
    security.kubeapt.io/severity: "High"
    security.kubeapt.io/remediation: "Drop get, list, watch and proxy on nodes and its proxy, log and metrics subresources, and drop create, update, patch, delete and proxy on persistentvolumes, storageclasses and namespaces. Fields: rules[*].apiGroups, rules[*].resources, rules[*].verbs."
    security.kubeapt.io/product: "Kubernetes"
spec:
  failurePolicy: Fail
  matchConstraints:
    resourceRules:
    - apiGroups:
      - rbac.authorization.k8s.io
      apiVersions:
      - v1
      operations:
      - CREATE
      - UPDATE
      resources:
      - clusterroles
  variables:
  - name: nodeResources
    expression: |
      ["nodes","nodes/proxy","nodes/log","nodes/metrics"]
  - name: pvResources
    expression: |
      ["persistentvolumes"]
  - name: storageResources
    expression: |
      ["storageclasses"]
  - name: namespaceResources
    expression: |
      ["namespaces"]
  - name: writeVerbs
    expression: |
      ["create","update","patch","delete","proxy"]
  - name: readVerbs
    expression: |
      ["get","list","watch","proxy"]
  validations:
  - expression: |
      !has(object.rules) || object.rules.all(r,
        !(
          (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
           r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
           r.resources.exists(res, variables.nodeResources.exists(nr, nr == res)) &&
           r.verbs.exists(v, variables.readVerbs.exists(rv, rv == v))) ||
          (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
           r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
           r.resources.exists(res, variables.pvResources.exists(pr, pr == res)) &&
           r.verbs.exists(v, variables.writeVerbs.exists(wv, wv == v))) ||
          (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
           r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
           r.resources.exists(res, variables.storageResources.exists(sr, sr == res)) &&
           r.verbs.exists(v, variables.writeVerbs.exists(wv, wv == v))) ||
          (has(r.apiGroups) && has(r.resources) && has(r.verbs) &&
           r.apiGroups.exists(ag, ag == "") &&
           r.resources.exists(res, variables.namespaceResources.exists(nsr, nsr == res)) &&
           r.verbs.exists(v, variables.writeVerbs.exists(wv, wv == v)))
        )
      )
    message: |
      ClusterRoles must not grant broad access to nodes (read/proxy), persistent volumes, storageclasses, or namespace create/update/patch/delete.

Save it as clusterrole-infra-cluster-resources.yaml — the commands below assume that name.

Validate with kubeapt

Check a workload against this one policy, before anything is installed on a cluster.

$ kubeapt validate -p ./clusterrole-infra-cluster-resources.yaml -r ./workload.yaml

Or without the file, from the published policy set — -r takes a directory too:

$ kubeapt policies download && kubeapt validate --policy-name clusterrole-infra-cluster-resources -r ./manifests

Or against every namespace in the cluster your kubeconfig points at:

$ kubeapt validate --policy-name clusterrole-infra-cluster-resources -A