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fix(kubeovn-webhook): restrict the webhook port to the API server - #3955
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The /mutate-pods handler returns namespace-derived annotations to any caller that reaches it (GHSA-g883-q79m-8225), and until now nothing stopped an arbitrary in-cluster pod from being that caller. Client-certificate verification, added in #2698, cannot close this on its own. Enabling --client-ca-file requires the API server to *present* a certificate, which it does only when its AdmissionConfiguration names a kubeConfigFile for the webhook plugins. Checked on a running Cozystack control plane: the AdmissionConfiguration carries a PodSecurity block and nothing else, so no certificate is offered at all. Flipping to RequireAndVerifyClientCert there would reject the API server itself, and with failurePolicy: Fail that stops pod creation cluster-wide. No amount of log observation changes that — it is a property of the control plane's configuration, not of the traffic. So the network is where the caller can actually be constrained. The policy denies pod and world traffic to the serving port and needs no carve-out: the API server runs on the host network, so it is not a Cilium endpoint and fromEndpoints never matches it. Unlike the ingress-nginx admission webhook this component exists only on the management cluster, so there is no konnectivity-tunnelled caller to exempt either, and no forgeable pod label anywhere in the selector. It is a CiliumNetworkPolicy rather than a core NetworkPolicy, and that distinction is why it works at all: kube-ovn runs with ENABLE_NP: false and programs no ACLs, so a core NetworkPolicy would be created and never enforced. The values comment claiming NetworkPolicy was simply not an option is corrected — it was true only of the core kind. Deny-only with default-deny disabled, matching the ingress-nginx admission policy: putting these pods behind a default-deny would mean enumerating every port they serve and breaking traffic on the first one forgotten. Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
The package has its own scope in commit history but no entry, so its PRs land on the area/uncategorized fallback. It is a kube-ovn admission component, which is the same area as the kube-ovn scope beside it. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
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In `@packages/system/kubeovn-webhook/templates/networkpolicy.yaml`:
- Around line 40-61: The ingress policy around enableDefaultDeny and ingressDeny
must not imply API-server-only access: with default ingress allowed, host and
remote-node sources can still reach the webhook port. Add a separate host policy
to enforce the intended boundary, or update the policy’s documentation/comments
to state that it only restricts Cilium-managed pod and world traffic.
In `@packages/system/kubeovn-webhook/values.yaml`:
- Around line 46-49: Keep webhookPolicy.port synchronized with the webhook’s
actual serving port: either remove the independent configuration and use the
existing fixed 8443 value consistently, or propagate the configurable port
through the Deployment and Service as well. If retaining configurability, add a
test covering an overridden port.
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| enableDefaultDeny: | ||
| ingress: false | ||
| egress: false | ||
| ingressDeny: | ||
| # Every pod in the cluster. The namespace key is matched with Exists so the | ||
| # rule spans all namespaces: a plain fromEndpoints in a namespaced | ||
| # CiliumNetworkPolicy would only ever select pods sharing this policy's | ||
| # namespace, which would leave the webhook open to every other one. | ||
| - fromEndpoints: | ||
| - matchExpressions: | ||
| - key: k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace | ||
| operator: Exists | ||
| toPorts: | ||
| - ports: | ||
| - port: {{ .Values.webhookPolicy.port | quote }} | ||
| protocol: TCP | ||
| - fromEntities: | ||
| - world | ||
| toPorts: | ||
| - ports: | ||
| - port: {{ .Values.webhookPolicy.port | quote }} | ||
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Run in a namespace where admission permits hostNetwork pods.
set -euo pipefail
WEBHOOK_NAMESPACE="${WEBHOOK_NAMESPACE:-cozy-kubeovn}"
PROBE_NAMESPACE="${PROBE_NAMESPACE:?set this to a namespace that permits hostNetwork pods}"
RELEASE="${RELEASE:-kubeovn-webhook}"
service="$(
kubectl -n "$WEBHOOK_NAMESPACE" get service \
-l "app.kubernetes.io/instance=$RELEASE" \
-o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}'
)"
kubectl -n "$PROBE_NAMESPACE" run webhook-hostnetwork-probe \
--rm -i --restart=Never \
--image=curlimages/curl \
--overrides='{"spec":{"hostNetwork":true,"dnsPolicy":"ClusterFirstWithHostNet"}}' \
--env "WEBHOOK_URL=https://${service}.${WEBHOOK_NAMESPACE}.svc:443/" \
-- sh -ceu '
status="$(curl -k -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
--connect-timeout 5 --max-time 10 "$WEBHOOK_URL" || true)"
echo "HTTP status: $status"
test "$status" = "000"
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file="packages/system/kubeovn-webhook/templates/networkpolicy.yaml"
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cat -n "$file"
printf '%s\n' '--- related chart files ---'
git ls-files packages/system/kubeovn-webhook | sed -n '1,120p'
printf '%s\n' '--- policy and host-network references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'ingressDeny|enableDefaultDeny|hostNetwork|remote-node|fromEntities|k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace|webhookPolicy' packages/system/kubeovn-webhook packages 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,260p'Repository: cozystack/cozystack
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CiliumNetworkPolicy ingressDeny enableDefaultDeny false host remote-node host-network pod enforcement fromEndpoints semantics
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In CiliumNetworkPolicy (CNP) and CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy (CCNP) configurations, the enableDefaultDeny field controls whether the policy places the selected endpoints into a "default-deny" mode for a specific traffic direction (ingress or egress) [1][2][3]. When enableDefaultDeny: ingress: false is set: 1. The policy does not force the selected endpoints into a default-deny state for ingress traffic [1][3]. 2. Only traffic explicitly allowed by the rules within that policy (or other policies) will be impacted [3][4]. Traffic that does not match any rule is not implicitly dropped by this policy [4]. 3. This is useful for creating broad, non-restrictive policies—such as those meant only for monitoring or specific logging—without accidentally blocking legitimate traffic [1][3]. Regarding host, remote-node, host-network, and fromEndpoints semantics: - Host Policies: These are a specific type of CCNP that use a nodeSelector instead of an endpointSelector [5][6]. They apply to the host namespace of the selected nodes, which includes pods running in host-networking mode [7][5]. They do not apply to standard pod-to-pod traffic unless those pods are in the host namespace [7][8]. - Entities: The host entity includes the local host, while remote-node represents any node in connected clusters other than the local host (including pods running in host-networking mode on those remote nodes) [9]. - fromEndpoints: This field is used within ingress rules to select the source endpoints allowed to communicate with the destination endpoints (selected by endpointSelector) [9]. When using host policies, the host entity (often labeled reserved:host) is treated as a special endpoint that can be referenced in these selectors to manage traffic to/from the node itself [7][8]. Key takeaway: Setting enableDefaultDeny: false allows you to define granular rules without triggering the restrictive "drop-all-else" behavior, which is particularly useful when applying policies to host-networked traffic or broad node-level configurations where broad connectivity to infrastructure services (like kube-apiserver) must be maintained [1][7][4].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/intro/
- 2: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/main/pkg/k8s/apis/cilium.io/client/crds/v2/ciliumnetworkpolicies.yaml
- 3: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/security/policy/intro/
- 4: CFP: Clarify the intent for policies with default deny specified with no rules cilium/cilium#35558
- 5: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/host/
- 6: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/security/policy/host/
- 7: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/host-firewall.html
- 8: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/host-firewall/
- 9: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/security/policy/layer3/
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site:docs.cilium.io host-networked pods CiliumNetworkPolicy endpointSelector host identity host firewall remote-node
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Cilium manages security for host-networked pods and the host itself primarily through Host Policies, which are a specialized implementation of CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy (CCNP) [1][2]. Key Concepts: Host Namespace and Host-Networked Pods: Host policies apply to the host namespace, which includes the node itself and any pods running in host-networking mode [1][2]. They do not apply to standard, non-host-networked pods [2]. Node Selector vs. Endpoint Selector: Unlike standard CiliumNetworkPolicies that use an endpointSelector to target specific pods based on labels, Host Policies use a nodeSelector to target specific nodes [1][2]. Once a node is selected, the policy governs the traffic for the entire host namespace on that node [1][2]. Host Identity (reserved:host): The host is represented internally by the reserved identity reserved:host [3][2]. Traffic originating from or destined for the local host IPs is associated with this identity [3]. In Cilium's security model, the host entity includes the local host as well as all containers running in host-networking mode on that host [4][5]. Remote-Node Entity: When crafting policies for host-networked environments, the remote-node entity is often used to represent all nodes in the cluster other than the local host [5]. This includes host-networking pods residing on those remote nodes [5]. This is particularly useful in Host Policies for allowing or restricting traffic between nodes [2][6]. Configuration and Enforcement: To enable this functionality, you must configure Cilium with hostFirewall.enabled=true [7]. Host policies are defined as CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy resources using a nodeSelector [1][6]. Because these policies control access to the node itself (including critical components like the kube-apiserver), they must be carefully constructed to avoid locking the Cilium agent out of the node [2][6]. You can inspect the status of host policies and the reserved:host endpoint using cilium-dbg endpoint list [1][8]. In summary, you cannot use a standard endpointSelector to target host-networked pods via CiliumNetworkPolicy because they exist outside the standard Cilium endpoint lifecycle; instead, you must use CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy with a nodeSelector to apply rules to the host namespace [1][2].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/host/
- 2: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/host-firewall/
- 3: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/gettingstarted/terminology/
- 4: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/layer3/
- 5: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/security/policy/layer3/
- 6: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/security/host-firewall/
- 7: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/security/policy/host/
- 8: https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/host-firewall.html
Do not claim API-server-only access from this policy.
With enableDefaultDeny.ingress: false, traffic that matches neither ingressDeny rule remains allowed. Host-network sources use the host or remote-node identity, not the pod namespace label or world. Node processes and host-networked pods can therefore reach the webhook port.
Use a separate host policy for this boundary, or document that this policy excludes only Cilium-managed pod and world traffic.
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In `@packages/system/kubeovn-webhook/templates/networkpolicy.yaml` around lines 40
- 61, The ingress policy around enableDefaultDeny and ingressDeny must not imply
API-server-only access: with default ingress allowed, host and remote-node
sources can still reach the webhook port. Add a separate host policy to enforce
the intended boundary, or update the policy’s documentation/comments to state
that it only restricts Cilium-managed pod and world traffic.
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NOT LGTM. The change is sound in shape but unverified in the one direction where being wrong is cluster-wide.
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This closes GHSA-g883-q79m-8225 by denying pod and world traffic to the webhook's serving port with a CiliumNetworkPolicy, relying on the API server being host-network (not a Cilium endpoint) to stay exempt. The good news first: the endpointSelector matches the deployment's pod labels exactly, helm template renders cleanly with port: "8443", all 8 helm-unittest cases pass, the deny-only plus enableDefaultDeny: false shape matches the established cilium-networkpolicy precedent, and the absence assertion correctly uses hasDocuments: count: 0 rather than a documentIndex-scoped check.
The blocking concern is that the exempt path is untested precisely where the blast radius is largest. Detail is in the inline note on the world deny.
[MINOR] Release-note scope reads wider than the mechanism
The policy constrains only Cilium-endpoint pods and world. Any host-network caller on the management cluster keeps the API server's host / remote-node identity and still reaches the port. That is by design, since it is the same identity that exempts the API server itself, but the release note's "restricted to the API server" reads stronger than what the selector actually enforces. Wording it as "restricted away from in-cluster pods and external traffic" would match the mechanism.
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[MAJOR] Untested in the direction that fails cluster-wide. The webhook is a regular overlay pod that the API server reaches through kube-ovn (chainingMode: generic-veth, masquerade: false, JOIN_CIDR: 100.64.0.0/16 in packages/system/cilium/values-kubeovn.yaml and packages/system/kubeovn/values.yaml). kube-ovn routes host-to-pod traffic through ovn0, so the API server's connection can arrive at the pod with a 100.64.0.0/16 join-subnet source rather than the node InternalIP. If Cilium does not know that CIDR as a cluster range it resolves the identity to world, and this fromEntities: world deny then blocks the API server's own call. With the webhook's failurePolicy: Fail that breaks pod CREATE in every namespace except cozystack.io/system=true and kube-system, i.e. a cluster-wide admission outage on rollout.
The cilium-networkpolicy precedent does not de-risk this: it is a CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy with a nodeSelector protecting host-network node ports, not an overlay pod behind kube-ovn, so the source-identity classification for the apiserver -> overlay-pod path is not covered by anything already in production.
The PR verified CRD validation via --dry-run=server and left the deny direction untested, but the direction that must hold is the allow: that the API server still reaches the port. Please prove it on a live kube-ovn cluster before merge: hubble observe / cilium monitor the incoming API-server connection to the webhook and confirm its identity is not world. It is a cheap check that removes the whole risk.
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| enabled: true | ||
| # Container port the webhook serves on; matches the deployment's containerPort. | ||
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[MINOR] Fail-open on port desync. webhookPolicy.port is decoupled from the deployment's hardcoded containerPort: 8443 and the service's targetPort: 8443. Because enableDefaultDeny.ingress is false, a desync fails open rather than closed: set webhookPolicy.port to anything other than 8443 and the policy denies a port nothing serves while the real 8443 stays fully reachable, silently removing the control this PR adds. Either drive containerPort / targetPort from the same value, or drop the knob and hardcode 8443 in all three places so they cannot drift apart.
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[MINOR] This 27-line rationale block is a # comment, which Helm does not strip at render (only {{/* */}} is), so the whole essay is copied verbatim into every rendered manifest in every cluster and drifts out of date the moment the code changes. Either convert it to a {{/* */}} template comment, or move the rationale to the docs site and keep a one-line pointer here.
| app.kubernetes.io/instance: {{ .Release.Name }} | ||
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[NIT] enableDefaultDeny.egress: false with no egress rules present is a no-op. Harmless, but it reads as exercised intent when nothing exercises it; can be dropped.
Derive the serving port from a single helper so the container port, the
Service targetPort and the policy cannot drift apart. With default-deny
disabled a disagreement failed open: the policy would deny a port nothing
serves while the real one stayed reachable, removing the control without
breaking anything visible. The knob that allowed the drift is gone and a
test asserts the three agree.
Move the rationale into template comments. Helm strips only {{/* */}}, so
the block was being copied verbatim into every rendered manifest. Record
in it what cilium monitor showed on a live kube-ovn cluster: the API
server reaches the webhook from the node InternalIP with identity host or
kube-apiserver, never from the join subnet and never as world.
Drop the egress default-deny toggle, which does nothing without egress
rules, and note that the policy removes in-cluster pods and external
traffic rather than every caller.
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Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
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LGTM. All four review points are addressed in a7cef35, and the blocking concern is resolved by live verification.
On the MAJOR: I reproduced it on a live kube-ovn + Cilium (generic-veth) cluster. With the policy active, cilium monitor on the webhook endpoint shows the API server arriving with its node InternalIP and identity host (same node) or kube-apiserver (peer node), never world and never from the 100.64.0.0/16 join subnet, so the world deny never applies to it. Pod CREATE in a non-exempt namespace stayed admitted and the webhook still copied the namespace annotation, while a pod-sourced connection to the serving port was dropped. The concern was real in that the PR left this side unverified; the check confirms the mechanism holds.
The rest: the port is now a single helper feeding containerPort, targetPort and the policy with an agreement test, the rationale block moved to a {{/* */}} comment so it no longer renders, the dead egress toggle is gone, and the release note now says "closed to in-cluster pods and external traffic". I ran both helm-unittest suites (9 cases green) and confirmed the rendered policy matches what was tested on the cluster.
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Checked the [MAJOR] on a live kube-ovn management cluster before anything else, since it is the one that decides whether this can merge at all.
The first line is the API server on the same node as the webhook pod, the second one on another node. In both cases the source is the node InternalIP, not a The concern was fair regardless: the PR had genuinely left this direction untested, and the check you asked for was the right one — it cost about fifteen minutes. The other three are addressed in
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Backport of #3955. The automated cherry-pick carried only the first commit of that PR and committed the values.yaml conflict, so this resolution brings the branch to what actually merged to main: the port comes from a single helper feeding the container port, the Service targetPort and the policy, the rationale sits in template comments rather than being rendered into every manifest, and the dead egress default-deny toggle is gone. Two deliberate differences from main. The image stays on the digest this release line already ships rather than main's older one, and the --client-ca-file argument is left out along with the values key it reads: both belong to #2698, which was never backported here, and the image on this line does not take the flag. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
) ## What this PR does Closes the exposure behind GHSA-g883-q79m-8225 by constraining who can reach the kube-ovn webhook's serving port. The `/mutate-pods` handler returns namespace-derived annotations to any caller that reaches it, and until now nothing stopped an arbitrary in-cluster pod from being that caller. ### Why the client-certificate path does not close it #2698 added `--client-ca-file`, deliberately off by default, as observation mode. Turning it on requires the API server to **present** a certificate, which it does only when its `AdmissionConfiguration` names a `kubeConfigFile` for the webhook plugins. Checked against a running Cozystack control plane rather than assumed: the `AdmissionConfiguration` there carries a `PodSecurity` plugin block and nothing else, so no client certificate is offered to admission webhooks at all. Flipping to `RequireAndVerifyClientCert` on such a cluster would reject the API server itself, and with `failurePolicy: Fail` that stops pod creation cluster-wide. This matters for how the remaining work was scoped: the plan had been to observe issuer logs for a day and then pin a CA. No amount of observation changes the outcome, because the absence is a property of the control plane's configuration, not of the traffic. Making `--client-ca-file` usable is a separate, larger change to how the platform configures the API server, and it is not a prerequisite for closing the exposure. ### What the policy does Denies pod traffic and world traffic to the serving port, and needs no carve-out for the legitimate caller: the API server runs on the host network, so it is not a Cilium endpoint and `fromEndpoints` never matches it. Unlike the ingress-nginx admission webhook this component exists only on the management cluster, so there is no konnectivity-tunnelled caller to exempt either — and consequently no forgeable pod label anywhere in the selector. It is a `CiliumNetworkPolicy` rather than a core `NetworkPolicy`, and that distinction is the reason it works at all: `packages/system/kubeovn/values.yaml` sets `ENABLE_NP: false`, so kube-ovn programs no ACLs and a core NetworkPolicy would be created and never enforced. The values comment that claimed NetworkPolicy was simply not an option is corrected — it was true only of the core kind. `webhookPolicy.enabled` lets a cluster whose networking variant ships no Cilium turn the object off. Deny-only with default-deny explicitly disabled, matching the ingress-nginx admission policy: putting these pods behind a default-deny would mean enumerating every port they serve and breaking traffic on the first one forgotten. ### Verification Eight helm-unittest cases cover the port, the all-namespaces span, the absence of any label-based exemption, the world deny, the disabled default-deny, the Cilium kind, the selector and the off switch. The rendered object was additionally accepted by a live API server via `kubectl apply --dry-run=server`, so the CRD validates it as written. Not verified: that a denied pod actually fails to reach the port at runtime. That needs a live negative test against the policy, which is the same gap the ingress-nginx admission policy carries. ### Screenshots Not applicable — no UI change. ### Downstream repositories Walked the trigger map against the diff. Nothing is reached: the change is one chart template, its values and its tests under `packages/system/`, with no package added or removed under `packages/apps/` or `packages/extra/`, no `packages/core/platform/values.yaml` key, no platform variant or bundle change, nothing under `hack/`, and no node prerequisite. - [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change - [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) - follow-up: ### Release note ```release-note fix(kubeovn-webhook): the kube-ovn webhook's serving port is now closed to in-cluster pods and external traffic by a CiliumNetworkPolicy. It previously answered any in-cluster pod with namespace-derived annotations (GHSA-g883-q79m-8225). Disable with webhookPolicy.enabled=false on clusters whose networking variant ships no Cilium. ``` <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added a Cilium network policy to protect the namespace-annotation webhook. * The policy is enabled by default and restricts access to the webhook port, blocking unauthorized in-cluster and external traffic. * Standardized the webhook port across its deployment, service, and network policy configuration. * **Bug Fixes** * Improved webhook network isolation when standard Kubernetes NetworkPolicy enforcement is unavailable. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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What this PR does
Closes the exposure behind GHSA-g883-q79m-8225 by constraining who can reach the kube-ovn webhook's serving port. The
/mutate-podshandler returns namespace-derived annotations to any caller that reaches it, and until now nothing stopped an arbitrary in-cluster pod from being that caller.Why the client-certificate path does not close it
#2698 added
--client-ca-file, deliberately off by default, as observation mode. Turning it on requires the API server to present a certificate, which it does only when itsAdmissionConfigurationnames akubeConfigFilefor the webhook plugins.Checked against a running Cozystack control plane rather than assumed: the
AdmissionConfigurationthere carries aPodSecurityplugin block and nothing else, so no client certificate is offered to admission webhooks at all. Flipping toRequireAndVerifyClientCerton such a cluster would reject the API server itself, and withfailurePolicy: Failthat stops pod creation cluster-wide.This matters for how the remaining work was scoped: the plan had been to observe issuer logs for a day and then pin a CA. No amount of observation changes the outcome, because the absence is a property of the control plane's configuration, not of the traffic. Making
--client-ca-fileusable is a separate, larger change to how the platform configures the API server, and it is not a prerequisite for closing the exposure.What the policy does
Denies pod traffic and world traffic to the serving port, and needs no carve-out for the legitimate caller: the API server runs on the host network, so it is not a Cilium endpoint and
fromEndpointsnever matches it. Unlike the ingress-nginx admission webhook this component exists only on the management cluster, so there is no konnectivity-tunnelled caller to exempt either — and consequently no forgeable pod label anywhere in the selector.It is a
CiliumNetworkPolicyrather than a coreNetworkPolicy, and that distinction is the reason it works at all:packages/system/kubeovn/values.yamlsetsENABLE_NP: false, so kube-ovn programs no ACLs and a core NetworkPolicy would be created and never enforced. The values comment that claimed NetworkPolicy was simply not an option is corrected — it was true only of the core kind.webhookPolicy.enabledlets a cluster whose networking variant ships no Cilium turn the object off.Deny-only with default-deny explicitly disabled, matching the ingress-nginx admission policy: putting these pods behind a default-deny would mean enumerating every port they serve and breaking traffic on the first one forgotten.
Verification
Eight helm-unittest cases cover the port, the all-namespaces span, the absence of any label-based exemption, the world deny, the disabled default-deny, the Cilium kind, the selector and the off switch. The rendered object was additionally accepted by a live API server via
kubectl apply --dry-run=server, so the CRD validates it as written.Not verified: that a denied pod actually fails to reach the port at runtime. That needs a live negative test against the policy, which is the same gap the ingress-nginx admission policy carries.
Screenshots
Not applicable — no UI change.
Downstream repositories
Walked the trigger map against the diff. Nothing is reached: the change is one chart template, its values and its tests under
packages/system/, with no package added or removed underpackages/apps/orpackages/extra/, nopackages/core/platform/values.yamlkey, no platform variant or bundle change, nothing underhack/, and no node prerequisite.Release note
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New Features
Bug Fixes