# Cis Aks V180 4.1.12

> Cis Aks V180 4.1.12 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.

Minimize access to the service account token creation (Manual)

- Skill name: `cis-aks-v180-4.1.12`
- Category: [DevOps & Security](https://www.openparable.com/skill/devops-security/1)
- Source: https://github.com/CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike/blob/HEAD/.cyberstrike/skill/CIS_benchmarks/Server_Software/Kubernetes/CIS_Azure_Kubernetes_Service_AKS_Benchmark_v1.8.0/cis-aks-v180-4.1.12/SKILL.md
- Repository: CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike (1,211 GitHub stars when collected)

## SKILL.md

# 4.1.12 Minimize access to the service account token creation (Manual)

## Profile Applicability

- Level 1

## Description

Users with rights to create new service account tokens at a cluster level, can create long-lived privileged credentials in the cluster. This could allow for privilege escalation and persistent access to the cluster, even if the users account has been revoked.

## Rationale

The ability to create service account tokens should be limited.

## Audit

Review the users who have access to create the `token` sub-resource of `serviceaccount` objects in the Kubernetes API.

## Remediation

Where possible, remove access to the `token` sub-resource of `serviceaccount` objects.

## References

1. [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/rbac-good-practices/#token-request](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/rbac-good-practices/#token-request)

## CIS Controls

| Controls Version | Control                                           | IG 1 | IG 2 | IG 3 |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| v8               | 6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control |      |      | x    |

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