gcloud-gke-metadata-server-disabled: GKE Clusters Without Metadata Server Enabled

id: gcloud-gke-metadata-server-disabled

info:
  name: GKE Clusters Without Metadata Server Enabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that GKE Metadata Server is enabled for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster nodes to enhance security by restricting workload access to sensitive instance information. The GKE Metadata Server feature requires Workload Identity for improved authentication and authorization.
  impact: |
    Without GKE Metadata Server enabled, pods have unrestricted access to the node's underlying metadata server, which contains sensitive information including kubelet credentials and VM instance identity tokens.
  remediation: |
    Enable GKE Metadata Server for your cluster node pools using:
    gcloud container node-pools update POOL_NAME --cluster=CLUSTER_NAME --workload-metadata-from-node=GKE_METADATA
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/protecting-cluster-metadata
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/GKE/enable-metadata-server.html
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,gke,kubernetes,security,metadata,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let cluster of iterate(template.clusters)){
      cluster = JSON.parse(cluster)
      set("clusterName", cluster.name)
      set("location", cluster.location)
      code(3)
      for(let nodePool of iterate(template.nodePools)){
        nodePool = JSON.parse(nodePool)
        set("nodePoolName", nodePool.name)
        code(4)
      }
    }
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud projects list --format="json(projectId)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: projectIds
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[].projectId'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud container clusters list --project $projectId --format="json(name,location)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: clusters
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud container node-pools list --cluster $clusterName --location $location --project $projectId --format="json(name)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: nodePools
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud container node-pools describe $nodePoolName --cluster $clusterName --location $location --project $projectId --format="value(config.workloadMetadataConfig)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "GCE_METADATA"

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Node pool " + nodePoolName + " in GKE cluster " + clusterName + " (" + location + ") of project " + projectId + " does not have GKE Metadata Server enabled"'
# digest: 4a0a004730450220032973e1d5cfb3eca87da458a87738a9748b47831c57c591fb6536e4fbd9ec2a022100ce340afdf94700b4d0ec9782cc9a4bb462793479ed15dee0bdc4b1e2027b5d32:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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