This issue was reported in the Kubernetes Security Audit Report

Description
Kubernetes uses secrets for multiple aspects of the system. In order to provide containers with these secrets, a directory is created and secrets are effectively mounted on the container within this directory. This practice presents two major concerns:

1. By default, the directories under /var/run/secrets are world-readable, similar to TOB-K8S-004: Pervasive world-accessible file permissions.
2. The default service account is also included within this bundle, allowing an attacker to parlay access to a container into wider-cluster access.

root@wordpress-dccb8668f-mzg45:/var/www/html# curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)" "https://172.31.28.169:10250/logs/" -k
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Figure 20.1: An example of parlaying access to a container into wider-cluster access

Exploit Scenario
Alice wishes to run a service within a container on her Kubernetes cluster. Eve has transited system boundaries, and has read access to the various secrets stored within the container. Eve then uses this access to attack cluster infrastructure as a whole, such as the /logs/ or /run/ routes.

Recommendation
Short term, do not add secrets to containers in a world-readable fashion. Instead, restrict them, either by permission of file system access control list, or to a specific user who truly needs access.

Long term, define a mechanism by which secrets may be filtered, and only mounted within containers that truly need them. This may go so far as to leave secrets unmounted until the user describing the container specifically requests it, and the cluster administrator specifically allows it.

Anything else we need to know?:

See #81146 for current status of all issues created from these findings.

The vendor gave this issue an ID of TOB-K8S-031 and it was finding 20 of the report.

The vendor considers this issue Medium Severity.

To view the original finding, begin on page 59 of the Kubernetes Security Review Report

Environment:

• Kubernetes version: 1.13.4