Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

out=$(kubectl get pods -A -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{.metadata.namespace}} {{.metadata.name}}{{range .spec.volumes}} {{.name}}{{end}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}') || exit 1
bad=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | awk -v ex='^(kube-system|kube-public|kube-node-lease|gatekeeper-system|azure-arc)$' 'NF && $1 !~ ex && ($0 ~ / kube-api-access-/)')
if [ -z "$bad" ]; then echo compliant; else printf '%s\n' "$bad" | head -n 25; fi

Expected output

compliant

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

Apply the following steps to reduce unnecessary service account token mounting in AKS: • Set automountServiceAccountToken to false for pods and service accounts that do not require Kubernetes API access. AKS policy guidance states that this increases security by avoiding default token auto-mounting. • Update workloads to use a dedicated serviceAccountName only where a service account token is operationally required, instead of inheriting token behavior from the namespace default service account. AKS states that service account credentials are used by authorized pods to communicate with the API server. • For workloads that need Azure resource access, use Microsoft Entra Workload ID with explicit workload configuration rather than broad default token mounting. AKS documents that workload identity token projection is enabled only for explicitly configured pods.

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

tmaegis scan --target aks