GKE Clusters Without Intranode Visibility Enabled

ID: gcloud-gke-intranode-visibility-disabled

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,gke,kubernetes,security,networking,visibility,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that intranode visibility is enabled for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. This allows you to monitor and troubleshoot network traffic between pods running on the same node, enhancing both visibility and security. When enabled, packets exchanged between Pods are always processed by the VPC network.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-gke-intranode-visibility-disabled

info:
  name: GKE Clusters Without Intranode Visibility Enabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that intranode visibility is enabled for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. This allows you to monitor and troubleshoot network traffic between pods running on the same node, enhancing both visibility and security. When enabled, packets exchanged between Pods are always processed by the VPC network.
  impact: |
    Without intranode visibility enabled, you cannot capture flow logs, enforce firewall rules, or use packet mirroring for traffic between pods on the same node, limiting your ability to monitor and secure intra-node communications.
  remediation: |
    Enable intranode visibility for your GKE clusters using:
    gcloud container clusters update CLUSTER_NAME --region=REGION --enable-intra-node-visibility
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/intranode-visibility
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/GKE/enable-intranode-visibility.html
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,gke,kubernetes,security,networking,visibility,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(networkConfig.enableIntraNodeVisibility)"

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

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"GKE cluster " + clusterName + " in " + location + " of project " + projectId + " does not have intranode visibility 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-intranode-visibility-disabled.yaml"

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