Restrict Auto-Mount of Service Account Tokens

Kubernetes automatically mounts ServiceAccount credentials in each Pod. The ServiceAccount may be assigned roles allowing Pods to access API resources. Blocking this ability is an extension of the least privilege best practice and should be followed if Pods do not need to speak to the API server to function. This policy ensures that mounting of these ServiceAccount tokens is blocked.

Policy Definition

/other/restrict_automount_sa_token.yaml

 1apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1
 2kind: ClusterPolicy
 3metadata:
 4  name: restrict-automount-sa-token
 5  annotations:
 6    policies.kyverno.io/title: Restrict Auto-Mount of Service Account Tokens
 7    policies.kyverno.io/category: Sample
 8    policies.kyverno.io/severity: medium
 9    policies.kyverno.io/subject: Pod
10    policies.kyverno.io/description: >-
11      Kubernetes automatically mounts ServiceAccount credentials in each Pod. 
12      The ServiceAccount may be assigned roles allowing Pods to access API resources.
13      Blocking this ability is an extension of the least privilege best practice and should
14      be followed if Pods do not need to speak to the API server to function. 
15      This policy ensures that mounting of these ServiceAccount tokens is blocked.      
16spec:
17  rules:
18  - name: validate-automountServiceAccountToken
19    match:
20      resources:
21        kinds:
22        - Pod
23    validate:
24      message: "Auto-mounting of Service Account tokens is not allowed."
25      pattern:
26        spec:
27          automountServiceAccountToken: false

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