GKE Clusters Without Backups Enabled

ID: gcloud-gke-backups-disabled

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,gke,kubernetes,security,backup,disaster-recovery,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that backups are enabled for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters to protect your workloads and enable disaster recovery capabilities. GKE backups capture both configuration and volume data, allowing selective or comprehensive restoration of workloads, which is valuable for disaster recovery, CI/CD pipelines, workload cloning, and managing upgrades.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-gke-backups-disabled

info:
  name: GKE Clusters Without Backups Enabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that backups are enabled for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters to protect your workloads and enable disaster recovery capabilities. GKE backups capture both configuration and volume data, allowing selective or comprehensive restoration of workloads, which is valuable for disaster recovery, CI/CD pipelines, workload cloning, and managing upgrades.
  impact: |
    Without backups enabled, you risk potential data loss and extended downtime in case of disasters, and lack the ability to efficiently roll back workloads, migrate between clusters, or clone environments for testing and development.
  remediation: |
    Enable backups for your GKE clusters using:
    gcloud container clusters update CLUSTER_NAME --region=REGION --update-addons=BackupRestore=ENABLED
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/backup-restore
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/GKE/enable-cluster-backups.html
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,gke,kubernetes,security,backup,disaster-recovery,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)
    }
  }

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 clusters describe $clusterName --location $location --project $projectId --format="json(addonsConfig.gkeBackupAgentConfig.enabled)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "null"

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"GKE cluster " + clusterName + " in " + location + " of project " + projectId + " does not have backups enabled"'
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/gcp/gke/gcloud-gke-backups-disabled.yaml"

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