Cis Aks V170 4.1.6
DevOps & Securitycis-aks-v170-4.1.6Cis Aks V170 4.1.6 is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.
Ensure Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Automated)
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4.1.6 Ensure 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.
Set SERVICE_ACCOUNT and POD variables to appropriate values:
automountServiceAccountToken: false
Remediation
Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service account tokens to disable it.
Default Value
By default, all pods get a service account token mounted in them.
References
- https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-service-account/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v2-identity-management#im-2-manage-application-identities-securely-and-automatically
CIS Controls
| Controls Version | Control | IG 1 | IG 2 | IG 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v8 | 4.1 Establish and Maintain a Secure Configuration Process | x | x | x |
| v7 | 5.2 Maintain Secure Images | x | x |