TCP listen on port 9253 on all interface addresses creates security vulnerability

[amshankaran]

K8s cluster is installed on VMs/worker nodes having multiple interfaces. Couple of interfaces have external connectivity towards DC-GW. dns-node-cache (node-local-dns) listens on 9253 for prometheus. But this TCP listens on all the interfaces including external interfaces. This makes cluster vulnerable to DoS attack.

worker-pool1-z92h78yx-stack:~ # lsof -i -n -P | grep :9253 node-cach 4720 root 8u IPv6 41286 0t0 TCP *:9253 (LISTEN)

As per prometheus plugins suggestion, if we configure an IP address, X.X.X.X:9253 it will be specific to the particular node with address X.X.X.X. In a multi-node cluster, this configuration in configmap will fail the bind with node address Y.Y.Y.Y

A configuration required to Listen on nodes InternalIP, which can solve this issue. (InternalIP:9253)

[amshankaran]

corefile.txt Attaching the node-local-dns corefile

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[Goend]

@amshankaran you can close by set args

args: [ "-localip", "169.254.20.10,{{ skydns_server }}", "-conf", "/etc/Corefile","-metrics-listen-address", "0", "-upstreamsvc", "kube-dns-upstream" ]