fix(github-config): constrain team management - #2718
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One security blocker remains in the new admission boundary.
…-vulnerability Resolves two conflicts: - k8s/bases/apps/github-config/role.yaml — main #3004 already enumerated every managed-resource kind explicitly, superseding this branch's split of the team group out of a resources: ["*"] wildcard. Takes main's version and keeps only the branch's explanatory comment, which now sits above main's team rule; the branch's own team rule was a byte-identical duplicate of it. - cluster-policies/kustomization.yaml — union of both new policy entries.
…m identity The policy matched kinds as Team.team.github.m.upbound.io — kubectl's resource.group shorthand, not Kyverno's group/version/Kind form that every other CRD policy here uses. Nothing matched it, so an Enforce policy would have deployed protecting nothing. Fixed to team.github.m.upbound.io/*/Team, with a version wildcard so a provider bump cannot silently un-protect it. Also closes the identity gap the review raised: the allow-list checked only metadata.name while the provider reconciles spec.forProvider.name, so a Team named platform could point at any GitHub team and the teamIdRef rules would still accept it. Binds forProvider/initProvider name to the object name, and blocks foreign crossplane.io/external-name adoption at creation. Adds kyverno test fixtures covering both, including the escalation itself.
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The rule gated CREATE with a {{ request.operation }} precondition, but the
policy sets background: true and a background scan has no AdmissionReview to
read request.* from. Expressing the scope as a match operation keeps it
background-safe and simply does not select during a background scan.
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…al-name rule Addresses the Codex review at 2b57d41. upjet merges initProvider into unset forProvider fields, so the reference rules inspecting only forProvider could be fronted: an approved forProvider teamIdRef alongside a foreign initProvider teamId, or permission: push alongside initProvider permission: admin. Both reference rules now apply every ID, selector, reference and permission constraint to initProvider as well. Removes teams-block-foreign-external-name-adoption. It looked like the natural counterpart to the identity binding but broke legitimate re-adoption: after a rebuild the existing GitHub team must be adopted by the numeric team ID the provider itself writes to that annotation, and accepting only the object name would make Crossplane try to create a team that already exists, so github-config could not recover its own teams. Constraining it safely needs a way to tell our teams' numeric identities from a foreign one plus the provider ServiceAccount excluded; folded into #3144 rather than shipped half-closed.
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`@k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/restrict-github-team-management.yaml`:
- Around line 158-160: Replace both exact-admin deny conditions in the relevant
policy rule with permission allow-list validation, permitting only the
explicitly approved permission values and rejecting maintain or custom roles.
Update the rule message to describe the allow-list requirement and add a fixture
covering a maintain grant being denied.
- Around line 19-28: Remove the policy-level validationFailureAction from the
policy spec and add failureAction: Enforce inside each validate rule in the
policy. Preserve policies.kyverno.io/minversion: 1.6.0 and ensure every
validation rule retains enforcement behavior.
In `@tests/restrict-github-team-management/resources.yaml`:
- Around line 50-61: Add two TeamMembership fixtures in
tests/restrict-github-team-management/resources.yaml: one using
forProvider.teamIdSelector and one using forProvider.teamIdRef.name set to
attacker-team. In tests/restrict-github-team-management/kyverno-test.yaml, add
result: fail rows for both fixtures under rule
teammemberships-reference-allow-listed-teams.
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Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 2359
File: k8s/bases/apps/actual-budget/helm-release.yaml:62-111
Timestamp: 2026-07-01T21:13:36.950Z
Learning: When reviewing Kustomize/Helm YAML in this repo, keep the base vs provider overlay split: `k8s/bases/apps/**` and `k8s/bases/infrastructure/**` should contain each app’s full, environment-agnostic configuration (including base-level postRenderer Kustomize patches such as deployment strategy, topology spread, probes, and env injection). `k8s/providers/{docker,hetzner}/**` should only add small provider-specific deltas (e.g., `interval`, `persistence.size`) via patch files (like `k8s/providers/<provider>/apps/<app>/patches/helm-release-patch.yaml`). If configuration is identical across providers (e.g., OIDC/OAuth env vars where `${domain}` is resolved per cluster via envsubst), it belongs in the base and must not be duplicated into provider overlays.
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k8s/bases/apps/github-config/role.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/kustomization.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/restrict-github-team-management.yaml
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Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.349Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, Checkov CI scans source manifests with `--skip-framework kustomize` rather than rendered Kustomize overlays. To suppress a Checkov finding on a base manifest, place the appropriate `checkov.io/skip*` annotation directly in that base YAML file; an overlay patch will not suppress findings reported for the source file.
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k8s/bases/apps/github-config/role.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/kustomization.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/restrict-github-team-management.yaml
📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learning: For Kubernetes manifests under k8s/bases/, keep workload-related Checkov exception annotations (checkov.io/skip*) in the base manifest when the checked condition is defined there and CI scans that source manifest directly. Do not move these annotations to overlays solely because the base is immutable; keeping them with the workload ensures the disposition applies consistently to every consumer of the base.
Applied to files:
k8s/bases/apps/github-config/role.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/kustomization.yamlk8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/restrict-github-team-management.yaml
📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T21:23:32.529Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3025
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/kubescape/helm-release.yaml:97-133
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T21:23:32.529Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, modify Kubernetes manifests directly under k8s/bases/ when a configuration change should apply to all Kustomize overlays. Use provider- or cluster-specific overlay patches only for changes that are intentionally limited to those overlays.
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3082
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/coroot/cron-job-cnpg-degraded-alert.yaml:113-120
Timestamp: 2026-08-11T12:41:28.242Z
Learning: When changing behavior in Kubernetes manifests or related documentation, review comments and documentation in YAML/YML and Markdown files for statements describing the previous behavior. Update every stale statement in the same change so the repository’s explanatory text remains consistent with the implementation.
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k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/best-practices/restrict-github-team-management.yaml (1)
31-48: LGTM!Also applies to: 59-81
k8s/bases/apps/github-config/role.yaml (1)
54-58: LGTM!k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/kustomization.yaml (1)
15-15: LGTM!tests/restrict-github-team-management/forprovider-mismatch/kyverno-test.yaml (1)
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1-15: LGTM!tests/restrict-github-team-management/initprovider-mismatch/kyverno-test.yaml (1)
1-23: LGTM!tests/restrict-github-team-management/initprovider-mismatch/resources.yaml (1)
1-11: LGTM!
Addresses the CodeRabbit review at 5186097. The rule denied the exact value admin, but GitHub also offers maintain and organization-defined custom repository roles, so the guard failed open the moment the tenant selected any other privileged role. Replaced with an allow-list of pull/triage/push (empty being the provider default), applied to forProvider and initProvider alike — matching the allow-list style the rest of the policy already uses. Also covers three conditions no fixture exercised: teamIdSelector, a by-name reference to a non-allow-listed team, and the maintain grant above. The selector condition compares a JMESPath map literal against {}, which is exactly the kind of thing that silently stops matching.
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…-github-team-management-vulnerability # Conflicts: # k8s/bases/infrastructure/cluster-policies/kustomization.yaml
Blocker: this policy denies 40 of the 41 resources the tenant currently runsI ran this PR's policy against the live prod Per kind: 37/37 TeamRepository, 2/2 TeamMembership, and the There are four independent causes, and only the first is the one already flagged in review: 1. The provider writes 2. The allow-list names a team that does not exist. It permits 3. The permission allow-list excludes every grant in use. Deployed permissions are 22 4. Identity binding trips on letter case. Team What I think this needsCauses 1 and 4 are straightforward bugs. Cause 3 is a design question I don't want to answer by I have not pushed any change: the allow-list rewrite changes what this PR asserts, so it is the Reproduction is read-only: |
The obvious fix for cause 1 is a security hole — verified against the CRDFollowing up on my previous comment, because the natural repair here is unsafe and it is worth having The tempting fix is "allow a populated So with the default policy, a tenant that supplies both Two designs that actually holdRequire Or distinguish the writer. Exclude the provider's ServiceAccount from the I lean toward the second — it does not require a coordinated tenant rollout, and losing background Combined with the allow-list and permission mismatches in my previous comment, my honest read is that |
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Blocker: measured against the live cluster, this policy denies 40 of the 41 resources it governsI checked the P1 below against Live census
There is no Four independent denial pathsEach rule's conditions are
Net: only Why the obvious fix for the P1 is unsafeRelaxing the populated-
None of the live resources set So the rule cannot simply accept populated IDs. Telling the provider's write apart from the tenant's
The design question this surfacesPoint 4 is not a tuning error. The stated purpose — "blocks repository admin grants" — is The security value here is really in which teams exist, who is a member, and which repos are I have not pushed a change: points 1–2 are straightforward corrections, but 3 and 4 change what the Reproductionkubectl --context admin@prod get teamrepositories.team.github.m.upbound.io -A -o json \
| jq -r '"total: \(.items|length)",
"populated teamId: \([.items[]|select((.spec.forProvider.teamId//"")!="")]|length)",
"permissions: \([.items[].spec.forProvider.permission//"<unset>"]|unique|join(", "))"' |
The P1 on
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The ablation flips the verdict, so the denial is caused specifically by the resolver-written field —
not by the selector conditions, not by initProvider, not by the reference name.
2. Aggregate posture: with validationFailureAction: Enforce, every in-scope live object is denied
Running this policy against the current live objects in github-config (each as an individual
document — a List makes kyverno apply pass vacuously): 41 in-scope objects, 41 rule failures.
Exactly one object passes cleanly. This policy is new and not yet deployed, so that is the state
merging would create, not a pre-existing condition.
3. There is a second cause the thread does not mention: the allow-list does not match the live team set
One of the two allow-listed names does not exist in the cluster, and the team that owns the large
majority of the live in-scope objects is not allow-listed. So even with the teamId condition
fixed, teams-allow-listed, teams-bind-provider-identity-to-object-name and both reference rules
would still deny most of what is running. (The concrete names are deliberately omitted here — public
repo; they are one kubectl query away for a maintainer.)
4. Why CI is green (33/33) and did not catch any of this
The shipped fixtures encode a different world from the cluster:
- they reference the non-existent allow-listed name 11 times and the team that actually owns most
live objects zero times; and - no fixture models the post-resolution state — a resource carrying
teamIdRefand the
resolver-writtenteamIdtogether. TheteamIdfixtures are negative cases with noteamIdRef.
That gap is the reason the suite passes while the policy would break reconciliation, and it is worth
closing regardless of which fix is chosen: a fixture pair modelling pre- and post-resolution state.
On the obvious fixes — two are already known to fail here
- Universally allowing a populated
teamIdfails OPEN: that field is precisely what the rule
exists to constrain, so accepting any value reopens the bypass the policy was written to close. - Excluding the provider ServiceAccount by exact name is fragile: the provider SA name is
revision-hashed (provider-upjet-<provider>-<hash>), so an exact-nameexcludesilently stops
matching on the next provider bump — failing open with no signal. Matching onuserInfoalso
forcesbackground: false, which would disable background scanning for this policy.
The direction that actually distinguishes the two cases is the one the thread proposes: accept a
populated teamId only when it equals the resolved external ID of an allow-listed Team
(a context apiCall against the allow-listed Team objects), rather than requiring it to be empty.
That keeps tenant-supplied IDs rejected while letting provider-resolved ones through.
Parking this PR on that as a named blocker — the design call plus the allow-list correction are
both needed, and neither should be rubber-stamped into an Enforce policy. Leaving the Codex thread
open, since it is valid and unfixed. Nothing here is a criticism of the approach: the reference-based
design is right, and the deferral of the external-name constraint to #3144 is the correct instinct.
Your blocker just moved: Recording what that does and does not settle, because the difference is the whole reason #3195 Settled. The manifests are authored with Not yet settled — and this PR should stay blocked on it. #3195's acceptance criterion 3 is So the open P1 thread stays open. Once the reconcile is confirmed, the fix here is the one #3195 No change pushed to this branch. |
…nying teamId The teamId deny cannot work: the provider's own reference resolver writes the resolved ID into spec.forProvider.teamId before reconciliation, so the condition fires on the controller's write and deadlocks every resource it protects. All 39 live TeamMembership/TeamRepository resources carry a populated teamId. Requiring teamIdRef.policy.resolve: Always is the root fix (#3195): the reference re-resolves on every reconcile and overwrites whatever teamId is present, so a directly-authored numeric ID is inert by construction. Verified behaviourally against the deployed provider (provider-upjet-github v0.19.1, crossplane-runtime/v2 v2.1.0) by executing its generated resolver: under IfNotPresent a foreign teamId survives; under Always it is overwritten with the referenced team's ID. The initProvider teamId denies stay: the provider never writes initProvider on these resources (all 39 have initProvider {}), and a directly-authored initProvider.teamId is a real bypass the resolver does not overwrite. Test fixtures now isolate one failure reason each, and add unresolved-reference, ifnotpresent-reference and unresolved-reference-repo as dedicated negative controls for the new condition. Neutralising that condition fails exactly those three and nothing else. Part of #3195
P1 fixed, and a larger blocker found: this policy would deny the live fleetThe P1 is fixed. The The #3195 criterion 3 is now satisfied — verified behaviourally, not by readingCriterion 3 asks that a resource carrying an allow-listed
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…at does not The allow-list named `platform`, which is not a team in this org. Measured against the live cluster, enforcing it denied the `admins` Team object, the 23 resources referencing it, and — on capitalisation alone — the `admins` Team again under the identity-binding rule, because GitHub returns the display name `Admins` for the object named `admins`. Names the real teams (`admins`, `maintainers`) and compares the provider identity case-insensitively, so a display-name capitalisation is not a violation while a genuinely different team still is. The repository permission cap is deliberately NOT touched here: capping at `push` denies all 37 live grants, and whether this delegation should carry `admin`/ `maintain` is a privilege decision rather than a typo. That stays with #3208. Fixes #3207 Part of #2718
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|---|---|---|
| Team allow-list | platform, maintainers |
admins, maintainers |
| Identity binding | forProvider.name == metadata.name (exact) |
compared via to_lower(...) |
The repository permission cap is deliberately untouched — verified in the diff, push remains the ceiling. That is #3208's question, not a typo, and quietly widening it to admin would make the rule vacuous.
Acceptance criteria, each verified rather than reasoned
- Allow-list names the real teams — live: Team objects are
admins,maintainers. - Casing tolerated, foreign name still denied — live
adminscarriesforProvider.name: Admins. - Negative control — the
forprovider-mismatchfixture (objectadmins,forProvider.name: some-other-team) still fails the binding rule. A foreign name is denied; only the casing is forgiven. - Live-fleet admission —
kyverno applyagainst all 41 live objects, split into individual documents (aListmakeskyverno applyvacuous):
| Policy | pass | fail |
|---|---|---|
| original (pre-fix) | 3 | 40 |
this head fcd8058a |
6 | 37 |
| this head + permission cap widened (diagnostic only, not committed) | 43 | 0 |
The third row is the decisive one: with the permission cap alone relaxed everything passes, which proves every remaining denial is the permission ceiling and no team-identity or reference denial survives. Both Team objects and both TeamMembership resources are now admitted.
The tests actually bind
kyverno test is 22/22 + 2/2 + 2/2. Green on its own proves little here — #3145 records that these tests cannot fail for a policy matching nothing — so I ablated: reverting the compare to case-sensitive (substituted, not deleted) takes the suite to 21 passed / 1 failed, and restoring returns 22/22. The casing fix is pinned by a test that genuinely fails without it.
Remaining blocker
#3208 only — 37 of 37 TeamRepository resources grant admin (22) or maintain (15) today, so the push ceiling would revoke real access. That is a decision about how much repository privilege this delegation should carry; I have not pre-empted it here.
Staying a draft, and I have not spent a review lane at this head while a further commit for #3208 is still expected.
A flat permission cap cannot express the intent. Capping everything at `push` denied all 37 live grants; widening it to `admin` would let the maintainers team be granted `admin` and make the rule vacuous. Both horns were wrong. Measured against the live cluster the correlation is exact, with no exceptions: `admins` holds `admin` on 22 repositories, `maintainers` holds `maintain` on 15, and there is no `maintainers`+`admin` or `admins`+non-`admin` anywhere. So the ceiling belongs on the referenced team, not on the permission alone. The flat list keeps its original job — rejecting org-defined custom roles — and a new rule caps the maintainers team below `admin`. That admits every one of the 37 live grants while still denying the escalation a compromised artifact would actually want: `admin` through the lower-privileged team, in forProvider or merged in from initProvider. Fixes #3208 Part of #2718
Both blockers are now closed —
|
| pass | fail | |
|---|---|---|
| original policy | 3 | 40 |
| this head | 58 | 0 |
kyverno test 26/26, with both fixes ablation-proven — neutralising either one fails the suite, restoring it returns green.
Still a draft. CI is mid-flight at this head with no failures so far, and I have deliberately not spent a review lane on an unsettled build — the review request is the next step once checks land, per the cheapest-lane-first order. Note that botantler-1's and any earlier reviews are stale: every push re-stales the green.
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Motivation
The github-config tenant applies a public OCI artifact using org-admin GitHub credentials, so a compromised or unintended artifact could add arbitrary users to our GitHub teams or hand out repository access. RBAC can limit which API groups the tenant touches, but it cannot say which teams — that needs an admission guard.
Description
Adds an admission policy that keeps team management inside the two CODEOWNERS teams: only those teams may be managed, membership and repository grants must go through them rather than a raw team ID, and repository
adminis blocked.Two problems found while finishing this PR, both fixed here:
Behaviour is pinned by new policy tests that run in CI, including one that reproduces the escalation itself.
Notes for review
main, which supersedes it. Only its explanatory comment survives.Codex Task