cis-oke-v180-4-1-6

name	cis-oke-v180-4.1.6
description	Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Automated)
category	cis-oke
version	1.8.0
author	cyberstrike-official
tags	["cis","oke","kubernetes","oci","policies","rbac","service-accounts"]
cis_id	4.1.6
cis_benchmark	CIS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) Benchmark v1.8.0
tech_stack	["kubernetes","oci","oke"]
cwe_ids	[]
chains_with	[]
prerequisites	[]
severity_boost	{}

4.1.6 Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Automated)

Profile Applicability

• Level 1

Description

Service accounts tokens should not be mounted in pods except where the workload running in the pod explicitly needs to communicate with the API server.

Rationale

Mounting service account tokens inside pods can provide an avenue for privilege escalation attacks where an attacker is able to compromise a single pod in the cluster.

Avoiding mounting these tokens removes this attack avenue.

Impact

Pods mounted without service account tokens will not be able to communicate with the API server, except where the resource is available to unauthenticated principals.

Audit

Review pod and service account objects in the cluster and ensure that the option below is set, unless the resource explicitly requires this access.

automountServiceAccountToken: false

echo "=== ServiceAccounts with automountServiceAccountToken=false ==="
printf "%-25s %-40s\n" "NAMESPACE" "SERVICEACCOUNT"
echo "------------------------- ----------------------------------------"
kubectl get sa -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.automountServiceAccountToken==false)]}{.metadata.namespace}{"\t"}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' \
| sort | awk -F'\t' '{printf "%-25s %-40s\n", $1, $2}'

echo ""
echo "=== Pods with automountServiceAccountToken=false ==="
printf "%-25s %-40s\n" "NAMESPACE" "POD"
echo "------------------------- ----------------------------------------"
kubectl get pods -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.spec.automountServiceAccountToken==false)]}{.metadata.namespace}{"\t"}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' \
| sort | awk -F'\t'