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Restrict Binding System Groups

Certain system groups exist in Kubernetes which grant permissions that are used for certain system-level functions yet typically never appropriate for other users. This policy prevents creating bindings to some of these groups including system:anonymous, system:unauthenticated, and system:masters.

Policy Definition

/other/restrict-binding-system-groups/restrict-binding-system-groups.yaml

1apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1 2kind: ClusterPolicy 3metadata: 4 name: restrict-binding-system-groups 5 annotations: 6 policies.kyverno.io/title: Restrict Binding System Groups 7 policies.kyverno.io/category: Security, EKS Best Practices 8 policies.kyverno.io/severity: medium 9 policies.kyverno.io/subject: RoleBinding, ClusterRoleBinding, RBAC 10 kyverno.io/kyverno-version: 1.8.0 11 policies.kyverno.io/minversion: 1.6.0 12 kyverno.io/kubernetes-version: "1.23" 13 policies.kyverno.io/description: >- 14 Certain system groups exist in Kubernetes which grant permissions that 15 are used for certain system-level functions yet typically never appropriate 16 for other users. This policy prevents creating bindings to some of these 17 groups including system:anonymous, system:unauthenticated, and system:masters. 18spec: 19 validationFailureAction: Audit 20 background: true 21 rules: 22 - name: restrict-anonymous 23 match: 24 any: 25 - resources: 26 kinds: 27 - RoleBinding 28 - ClusterRoleBinding 29 validate: 30 message: "Binding to system:anonymous is not allowed." 31 pattern: 32 subjects: 33 - name: "!system:anonymous" 34 - name: restrict-unauthenticated 35 match: 36 any: 37 - resources: 38 kinds: 39 - RoleBinding 40 - ClusterRoleBinding 41 validate: 42 message: "Binding to system:unauthenticated is not allowed." 43 pattern: 44 subjects: 45 - name: "!system:unauthenticated" 46 - name: restrict-masters 47 match: 48 any: 49 - resources: 50 kinds: 51 - RoleBinding 52 - ClusterRoleBinding 53 validate: 54 message: "Binding to system:masters is not allowed." 55 pattern: 56 subjects: 57 - name: "!system:masters" 58
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