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Ensure Legacy Authorization is set to Disabled on Kubernetes Engine Clusters

In Kubernetes, authorizers interact by granting a permission if any authorizer grants the permission. The legacy authorizer in Kubernetes Engine grants broad, statically defined permissions. To ensure that RBAC limits permissions correctly, you must disable the legacy authorizer. RBAC has significant security advantages, can help you ensure that users only have access to cluster resources within their own namespace and is now stable in Kubernetes.

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Risk Level: High
Cloud Entity: Kubernetes Cluster
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.GCP.IAM.10
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Compute

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GkeCluster should have legacyAbac.enabled=false

REMEDIATION

From Portal

  1. Go to Kubernetes GCP Console by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/list?
  2. Select reported Kubernetes clusters for which Legacy Authorization is enabled
  3. Click on EDIT button and Set 'Legacy Authorization' to Disabled

From TF
Set the 'enable_legacy_abac' to be equal to false:

resource "google_container_cluster" "primary" {
	...
	"enable_legacy_abac" = false
	...
}

From Command Line
To disable the legacy-authorization, Run:

gcloud container clusters update CLUSTER_NAME --project=PROJECT --zone ZONE --no-enable-legacy-authorization

References

  1. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/role-based-access-control?hl=en_US
  2. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/creating-a-container-cluster

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  • GCP NIST 800-53 Rev 5

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