C-0259 - Workload with credential access

Framework

security

Severity

High

Description of the the issue

This control checks if workloads specifications have sensitive information in their environment variables.Note, this control is configurable. See below the details.

Related resources

CronJob, DaemonSet, Deployment, Job, Pod, ReplicaSet, StatefulSet

What does this control test

Check if the workload has sensitive information in environment variables, by using list of known sensitive key names.

Remediation

Use Kubernetes secrets or Key Management Systems to store credentials.

Configuration

This control can be configured using the following parameters. Read CLI/UI documentation about how to change parameters.

Values

sensitiveValues
Secrets are stored as a key/value pair. The names of the keys/values may change from one company to the other. Below you can find some examples of popular value phrases that Kubescape is searching for

Keys

sensitiveKeyNames
Secrets are stored as a key/value pair. The names of the keys/values may change from one company to the other. Here you can find some examples of popular key phrases that Kubescape is searching for

AllowedValues

sensitiveValuesAllowed
Allowed values

Example

No example