cis-aks-v180-4.1.7

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Limit use of Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions (Manual)

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4.1.7 Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)

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Level 1

Description

Cluster roles and roles with the impersonate, bind or escalate permissions should not be granted unless strictly required. Each of these permissions allow a particular subject to escalate their privileges beyond those explicitly granted by cluster administrators.

Rationale

The impersonate privilege allows a subject to impersonate other users gaining their rights to the cluster. The bind privilege allows the subject to add a binding to a cluster role or role which escalates their effective permissions in the cluster. The escalate privilege allows a subject to modify cluster roles to which they are bound, increasing their rights to that level.

Each of these permissions has the potential to allow for privilege escalation to cluster-admin level.

Impact

There are some cases where these permissions are required for cluster service operation, and care should be taken before removing these permissions from system service accounts.

Audit

Review the users who have access to cluster roles or roles which provide the impersonate, bind, or escalate privileges.

Remediation

Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind, and escalate rights from subjects.

Default Value

In a default kubeadm cluster, the system:masters group and clusterrole-aggregation-controller service account have access to the escalate privilege. The system:masters group also has access to bind and impersonate.

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CIS Controls

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