Workload Identity Cluster Creation Not Disabled

ID: gcloud-org-workload-identity

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,resourcemanager,security,gke,kubernetes,workload-identity,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that “Disable Workload Identity Cluster Creation” policy is enforced at the GCP organization level in order to require that any new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters have the Workload Identity feature disabled at the time of their creation. This constraint policy is useful when you want to tightly control service account access in your organization by disabling Workload Identity in addition to service account creation and service account key creation.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-org-workload-identity

info:
  name: Workload Identity Cluster Creation Not Disabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that "Disable Workload Identity Cluster Creation" policy is enforced at the GCP organization level in order to require that any new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters have the Workload Identity feature disabled at the time of their creation. This constraint policy is useful when you want to tightly control service account access in your organization by disabling Workload Identity in addition to service account creation and service account key creation.
  impact: |
    With Workload Identity enabled, GKE service can assert Kubernetes service account identities that can be authorized to access Google Cloud resources. This could lead to unintended access if not properly controlled.
  remediation: |
    Enable the "Disable Workload Identity Cluster Creation" policy at the organization level using the 'gcloud alpha resource-manager org-policies enable-enforce' command with the iam.disableWorkloadIdentityClusterCreation constraint.
  reference:
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/ResourceManager/disable-workload-identity-cluster-creation.html
    - https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/organization-policy/org-policy-constraints
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,resourcemanager,security,gke,kubernetes,workload-identity,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let orgId of iterate(template.orgIds)){
    set("orgId", orgId)
    code(2)
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud organizations list --format="json(name)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: orgIds
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[].name'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud alpha resource-manager org-policies describe iam.disableWorkloadIdentityClusterCreation --organization=$orgId --effective --format="json(booleanPolicy)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "{}"

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Organization " + orgId + " has not disabled Workload Identity for GKE cluster creation, potentially allowing uncontrolled service account access"'
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100cc64687d6ca993e844d332809261bbfb73f475fca6feb0faf42b2967ff507a69022100a5ee79a5f1d494661d8c0e053586b540be2ede157096689956814fbbe4f97296:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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/resourcemanager/gcloud-org-workload-identity.yaml"

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