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' "$out" | awk -v ex='^(kube-system|kube-public|kube-node-lease)$' '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 OKE: • Set automountServiceAccountToken to false for Pods and ServiceAccounts that do not require Kubernetes API access. This reduces unnecessary 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. Each application should use its own dedicated service account. • For workloads that need OCI access, use OKE workload identity with a dedicated service account rather than broad default token mounting. OKE workload identity uses the combination of cluster, namespace, and service account to grant access to OCI resources for the intended workload.

Check this host

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

tmaegis scan --target oke