fix(k3k): scope privileged PSA exemption - #6261
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[P1] Do not authorize privileged pods with spoofable metadata At exact head |
The privileged-pod-guard call added at the top of ensureNamespace declares err, so the pre-existing namespace Create below no longer introduces a new variable on the left of :=. Switch it to plain assignment. Without this the whole module fails to compile, which is why every check on this PR has been red since 2026-07-18.
Repaired the compile error that has kept every check on this PR red since 2026-07-18. Root cause. This PR adds _, err := p.hostClientset.CoreV1().Namespaces().Create(ctx, nsObj, metav1.CreateOptions{})With Why every check was red, not just one. The failure was in Evidence. Note this branch is still ~4 weeks behind |
Clears the six golangci-lint findings blocking this PR: ensurePrivilegedPodGuard was 108 lines (funlen 60), four lines exceeded the 120-column limit, and the DNS-label length 63 was an unnamed magic number. The CEL expressions move to named constants assembled by string concatenation. Their runtime values are byte-identical to the originals (verified by dumping both and diffing, with a negative control confirming the comparison fires), so the admission guard's semantics are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Repaired the six
The CEL expressions are the part worth checking, since wrapping them into concatenated constants could silently change what the admission guard enforces. They do not: I dumped the three assembled constants at runtime and diffed them against the originals extracted from the pre-change file — byte-for-byte identical — and confirmed the comparison was not vacuous by perturbing one character and watching the diff fire. Behaviour is otherwise pinned by the existing test, which drives the real path through a fake clientset and reads back the created policy and binding; it passes unmodified. This was a repair push to a sibling lane's branch: the PR's own lane had left the check failing since 13:20Z, with no activity on the PR since and no pushes to the repository since 14:20Z. |
Resolves the ensureNamespace conflict by keeping main's clusterName parameter and the branch's ensurePrivilegedPodGuard call. Both sides' intent is preserved: the namespace label uses the passed clusterName, and the admission guard still scopes the privileged PSA exemption.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe k3d provisioner creates a validating admission policy and binding before namespace creation. CEL rules detect privileged and host-level pod settings while allowing only matching KSail-managed k3k server pods. Resources use idempotent updates with conflict retries. Guard names are limited to 63 characters with deterministic SHA-256 suffixes. Cluster deletion removes the guard resources. Tests cover policy evaluation, effective cluster names, idempotency, name limits, and cleanup. Possibly related issues
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In `@pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner_test.go`:
- Around line 89-114: The existing test should cover the remaining guard
branches: use a cluster name long enough to exercise privilegedPodGuardName
truncation and assert the generated name is 63 characters, call
EnsureNamespaceForTest twice to verify create-or-update behavior, and assert the
namespace ksail.io/cluster label matches the binding selector value.
- Around line 97-101: Update the test around the policy validation assertions to
require that Validations has exactly one entry before indexing it, then retain
the expression assertion. Also assert the guard’s fail-closed fields:
FailurePolicy must be Deny and binding.Spec.ValidationActions must equal a
single admissionv1.Deny value, importing admissionv1 as needed.
In `@pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go`:
- Around line 814-819: Use the effective cluster name computed by Create
consistently for privileged-pod guard setup: pass it through
ensurePrivilegedPodGuard, buildPrivilegedPodGuardPolicy, and
buildPrivilegedPodGuardBinding, and use that parameter for namespace selectors
and server-pod matching instead of p.clusterName.
- Around line 774-778: Update Delete to remove the cluster-scoped
ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding created by
applyPrivilegedPodGuardPolicy, using their generated name or label selector
before or alongside namespace cleanup. Preserve existing kubeconfig and
namespace deletion behavior, and ensure cleanup targets only the resources
belonging to the deleted cluster.
- Around line 737-751: The ResourceRules entry for pods must also match the
pods/ephemeralcontainers subresource so unsafePodExpression validates
ephemeral-container updates. Add the subresource alongside the existing pods
resource while preserving the current Create and Update operations.
- Around line 697-700: Update serverPodExemptionTemplate to guard both
metadata.labels lookups with presence checks before comparing the cluster and
role values, while preserving the existing unsafe-pod and server-pod exemption
behavior.
- Around line 684-693: Harden serverPodExemptionTemplate so exemption matching
requires an authenticated creator identity or another server-controlled
invariant instead of relying only on pod names and labels. Complete
unsafePodExpression across containers, initContainers, and ephemeralContainers
to detect only unsafe capabilities and sysctls, while retaining the existing
unsafe checks and requiring hostPort to be greater than zero.
- Around line 780-793: Update the create-or-update logic in the policy path and
applyPrivilegedPodGuardBinding so update failures report an “update” operation
rather than “create,” and wrap the Get/Update sequence in retry.RetryOnConflict
to retry concurrent ResourceVersion conflicts while preserving the existing
create behavior.
Apply the same fix in `@pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go`
around lines 780 - 793.
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-02T19:26:41.922Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/ksail PR: 6434
File: pkg/cli/clusterapi/eks_create_identity_test.go:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-02T19:26:41.922Z
Learning: In Go tests using Testify v1.11.1, do not flag require.NoError(t, err) inside an Eventually condition solely because the condition may run in another goroutine: require calls t.Errorf before FailNow, and t.Errorf marks the outer test as failed. However, prefer decomposing Eventually conditions so service errors, missing resources, and state or phase mismatches are reported separately for clearer diagnostics.
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pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go (4)
5-5: LGTM!Also applies to: 18-18, 42-44
646-679: LGTM!
706-715: LGTM!
850-859: LGTM!pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner_test.go (1)
71-71: LGTM!
The guard's binding selected namespaces on p.clusterName while ensureNamespace labels the namespace with effectiveClusterName(name). When the operator passes a namespace-qualified provisioned name the two differ, the binding matches nothing, and the namespace keeps its blanket privileged PSA exemption with no guard on it. Thread the effective name through the guard name, policy and binding. Also harden the guard itself: - Pair the pod name and label checks with request.userInfo. Both are attacker-controlled, so anyone able to create a Pod in the namespace could reproduce them and take the exemption; userInfo is server-populated. - Key-guard every label lookup. CEL raises "no such key" on a missing key and FailurePolicy is Fail, so an unlabelled unsafe pod produced an evaluation error instead of a clean rejection carrying the guard's message. - Match pods/ephemeralcontainers. Ephemeral containers arrive through their own subresource, so unsafePodExpression's check for them was unreachable. - Re-impose the rest of the PSA baseline the exemption removes: added capabilities beyond NET_BIND_SERVICE, host ports, and non-baseline sysctls, applied across all three container lists. - Delete the cluster-scoped policy and binding in Delete; the namespace delete does not reach them, so every deleted cluster leaked a pair. - Share one conflict-safe create-or-update routine between both resources, so update failures are reported as updates and a concurrent writer retries instead of aborting namespace setup. The guard's behaviour now has real coverage: the CEL expressions the provisioner ships are compiled and evaluated against concrete pods, including a negative control that reproduces the missing-key failure the key guards prevent.
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In `@pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner_test.go`:
- Around line 150-157: Update the selector assertions in the binding test to
verify each expected label key is present with the required value, rather than
comparing namespace and selector map lookups. Ensure both “ksail.io/cluster” and
“ksail.io/managed-by” are validated against explicit expected values or guarded
with presence checks before comparing.
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Usefsutil.ReadFileSafefor constrained file reads instead of reimplementing path-containment checks.
Do not manually register MCP or Copilot tool handlers; runnable Cobra commands are exposed through automatic generation inpkg/toolgen.
Use a typedexperimentalfield inksail.yamlfor configuration-gated behavior that is not an entire command; regenerate the schema and CRD.
Graduate validated experimental features by deleting the singleGuardcall; do not retain unnecessary experimental scaffolding.
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Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/ksail PR: 6261
File: pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-16T08:35:17.064Z
Learning: In `devantler-tech/ksail#6261`, the residual risk in `pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go` is tracked by open issue `#6586`, “Pin the k3k privileged-pod guard exemption to the exact controller identity.” The follow-up requires live-cluster verification of the k3k server pod creator, narrowing `serverPodExemptionTemplate` to that exact principal, a negative non-controller service-account test, and provisioning verification.
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/ksail PR: 6261
File: pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go:741-748
Timestamp: 2026-08-16T08:27:53.810Z
Learning: In `pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go`, CEL `&&` short-circuits in `serverPodExemptionTemplate`. The intended k3k server pod has the required labels and is not rejected by unguarded label lookups after a successful name-prefix check. However, an unsafe pod without labels causes `object.metadata.labels[...]` to return a `no such key` evaluation error. Since `FailurePolicy` is `Fail`, the request is denied with that evaluation error instead of the policy rejection message. Guard map access with `has(object.metadata.labels)` and `'key' in object.metadata.labels`.
📚 Learning: 2026-08-02T19:26:41.922Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/ksail PR: 6434
File: pkg/cli/clusterapi/eks_create_identity_test.go:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-02T19:26:41.922Z
Learning: In Go tests using Testify v1.11.1, do not flag require.NoError(t, err) inside an Eventually condition solely because the condition may run in another goroutine: require calls t.Errorf before FailNow, and t.Errorf marks the outer test as failed. However, prefer decomposing Eventually conditions so service errors, missing resources, and state or phase mismatches are reported separately for clearer diagnostics.
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Timestamp: 2026-07-16T11:50:55.618Z
Learning: Applies to **/*_test.go : Add regression tests for confident bug fixes and run flaky-test candidates repeatedly with `go test -run <T> -count=10 ./...`.
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[warning] 385-391: A log/format call (log.Print/Printf/Println, the Fatal/Panic variants, fmt.Sprintf, or a structured logger's Info/Warn/Error/Debug method) is given a message built by concatenating a string literal with a non-literal value such as request data. Unsanitized, attacker-controlled input written to logs enables log forging / CRLF injection: an attacker can inject newlines to spoof log entries or break log parsers. Do not concatenate raw input into the log message; pass it as a separate structured field/argument (e.g. 'log.Printf("user: %s", user)' or 'logger.Info("login", "user", user)') and strip or escape newline characters first.
Context: fmt.Sprintf(
"!variables.isUnsafePod || (object.metadata.name.startsWith('%s') && "+
"object.metadata.labels['cluster'] == '%s' && "+
"object.metadata.labels['role'] == 'server')",
"k3k-"+guardTestCluster+"-server-",
guardTestCluster,
)
Note: [CWE-117] Improper Output Neutralization for Logs.
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pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.go (8)
712-727: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 💤 Low value
procMountis still not covered byunsafePodExpression.The PSA baseline profile requires
securityContext.procMountto beDefault. The namespace carries aprivilegedenforce label, so a pod can setprocMount: Unmaskedand the guard admits it. Add the field tounsafeContainerPredicateif you want the guard to re-impose the full baseline.This repeats the earlier request to complete
unsafePodExpression, so treat it as optional scope rather than a new finding.
253-259: LGTM!
653-690: LGTM!
729-763: LGTM!
765-824: LGTM!
879-938: LGTM!
940-969: LGTM!
854-874: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityRemove this concern.
apierrors.IsConflictunwraps errors ink8s.io/apimachinery v0.36.3, soRetryOnConflictretries the wrapped update error.> Likely an incorrect or invalid review comment.pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner_guardcel_test.go (6)
29-65: LGTM!
67-113: LGTM!
115-214: LGTM!
216-332: LGTM!
334-356: LGTM!
358-397: LGTM!pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner_test.go (4)
159-203: LGTM!
205-227: LGTM!
229-246: LGTM!
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58-79: LGTM!
Comparing two map lookups agreed vacuously when the label key was absent from both the namespace and the binding selector, so dropping it from both would report agreement while the binding matched every ksail-managed namespace. Proven: with the key removed from both sites the old form passed and the new form fails. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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( This is CodeRabbit's own threshold, not a gate this repository enforces — CI is fully green — so it does not block on its own. I am deliberately not pushing the two comments myself: any push re-stales the current-head green, and CodeRabbit is rate-limited account-wide right now, so the PR would lose a green it already holds and have to queue for another. Better value for whoever picks this up is to fold those two doc comments into the next push this branch takes for another reason. Not taking this over — no push here in ~4h, but it is this lane's PR and it is otherwise finishable. |
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2. Reviewed. CodeRabbit green at this head — summary comment naming 3. Tried and evaluated as a user. The user-facing surface of this change is the admission policy itself, and it was exercised as such: the shipped expression string was evaluated against constructed pod inputs and its accept/reject decisions observed, including the exemption subtests. Isolating the One item deliberately not addressed: CodeRabbit's ancillary output flags docstring coverage at 33.33% against an 80% threshold. Two functions — |
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Motivation
pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=privileged, which granted a namespace-wide Pod Security Admission exemption and opened a host-escape risk if arbitrary actors could create pods in that namespace.Description
ensurePrivilegedPodGuardwhich creates an idempotentValidatingAdmissionPolicyandValidatingAdmissionPolicyBindingthat deny "unsafe" pod specs (hostPID/hostIPC/hostNetwork/hostPath/privileged containers) unless the pod matches the k3k server naming/label pattern, and call it before creating the privileged namespace viaensureNamespace(keeps requiredpod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=privileged).privilegedPodGuardName.k3kunit test to assert the namespace label and the presence/shape of the admission policy and binding created for the KSail-managed namespace.pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner.goandpkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d/kubernetes_provisioner_test.go.Testing
git diff --checkand committed the changes successfully.go test ./pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/k3d -run TestEnsureNamespace_ScopesPrivilegedPodSecurity, but execution was blocked by dependency fetch failures from the Go proxy in this environment so the test could not be executed here.go test ./...andgo build -o /tmp/ksail-maint ., but both were blocked by external module fetch errors in this environment and thus did not complete.golangci-lint run, but the availablegolangci-lintbinary was built with Go 1.24 which is older than the repo target Go version, so the lint run was not executed successfully.Codex Task