Configuration Using CRDs

You can create your own policies and apply them for either all or specific ingress rules, set exceptions and other advanced options using K8S native declarative configuration.

Using open-appsec K8S Custom Resources

open-appsec configuration is done using Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD). Custom Resources are extensions of the Kubernetes API that allow powerful yet standard way of managing policies in a declarative way as well as using infrastructure-as-code paradigm. This support is an important goal of managing changes as part of your CI/CD processes.

open-appsec provides seven CRDs. The main one is policy - which defines default behaviors that will apply to all Ingress rules and also behaviours that you wish to apply just to specific rules. The policy resource refers to all other CRDs.

The Kubernetes API serves and handles the storage of custom resources. They can be accessed and managed using standard tools: kubectl, a REST client that you write, Go and Python client libraries and more.

For example, to see available policies:

$ kubectl get policy.openappsec.io
NAME                                       AGE
open-appsec-best-practice-policy           90m

To see e.g. the open-appsec-best-practice-policy-detect resource run:

$ kubectl get policy.openappsec.io open-appsec-best-practice-policy -o yaml

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: Policy
metadata:
  name: open-appsec-best-practice-policy
spec:
  default:
    custom-response: 403-forbidden
    exceptions: []
    mode: detect-learn
    practices:
    - appsec-best-practice
    triggers:
    - appsec-log-trigger

In case you want to edit one of your own policies, e.g. your own default-policy you can do this with the following command (see further below for an example to create your own custom policy resource):

kubectl edit policy.openappsec.io/open-appsec-best-practice-policy

Activating open-appsec

In order to activate open-appsec, add the policy resource name (e.g. open-appsec-best-practice-policy) to your Ingress resource. For example:

...
annotations:
  openappsec.io/policy: open-appsec-best-practice-policy
...

Ingress resource example

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    openappsec.io/policy: open-appsec-best-practice-policy-detect
    # openappsec.io/policy: open-appsec-best-practice-policy-prevent
  name: ingress-wildcard-host
spec:
  rules:
  - host: "foo.bar.com"
    http:
      paths:
      - pathType: Prefix
        path: "/bar"
        backend:
          service:
            name: service1
            port:
              number: 80
  - host: "*.foo.com"
    http:
      paths:
      - pathType: Prefix
        path: "/foo"
        backend:
          service:
            name: service2
            port:
                number: 80

The open-appsec-best-practice-policy will by default:

• Inspect traffic to all ingress rules (paths) and learn it

• Detect suspicious requests in confidence high or critical

• In case of the prevent policy send an HTTP Error Code 403 Forbidden to the client that sent the bad request

• Log to stdout (so you can use fluentd/fluentbit) to send logs to ELK or other collector.

You can define your own policy and change relevant parameters as explained in the next section.

Custom Resources Specifications

Policy

Policy resource defines default behaviors that will apply to all Ingress rules and optional policies that you wish to apply just to specific rules.

Example

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: Policy
metadata:
  name: open-appsec-best-practice-policy
spec:
  default:
    triggers:
    - appsec-special-log-trigger
    mode: detect-learn
    practices:
    - webapp-best-practice
    source-identifiers: appsec-source-identifiers-sourceip-example
    trusted-sources: appsec-trusted-source-example
    custom-response: appsec-web-user-response-example
    exceptions:
    - appsec-exception-example
  specific-rules:
  - host: web.server.com/example
    triggers:
    - appsec-special-log-trigger
    mode: prevent-learn
    practices:
    - webapp-best-practice
    source-identifiers: appsec-source-identifiers-sourceip-example
    trusted-sources: appsec-trusted-source-example
    custom-response: appsec-web-user-response-example
    exceptions:
    - appsec-exception-example
  - host: web.server.com/another-example
    triggers:
    - appsec-special-log-trigger
    mode: prevent-learn
    practices:
    - webapp-best-practice
    source-identifiers: appsec-source-identifiers-sourceip-example
    trusted-sources: appsec-trusted-source-example
    custom-response: appsec-web-user-response-example
    exceptions:
    - appsec-exception-example

Specification

default

• mode string enum - security engines operation mode. Blocking will only happen in prevent-learn mode

  • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive (note that prevent and detect are just aliases for prevent-learn and detect-learn)

• practices array of strings - defines which security engines to activate and their specific settings (Note there cannot be multiple practices of the same kind specified here!)

  • reference to Practice resource(s)

• triggers array of strings - defines logging verbosity and destination (stdout, syslog, cloud, etc) (Note for now only a single trigger is supported!)

  • reference to LogTrigger resource(s)

• custom-response string - defines prevent mode behaviors upon decision to block: HTTP response code, block page, http redirect

  • reference to CustomResponse resource

• source-identifiers string - defines how ML engine will distinguish between sources based on IP address, X-Foward-For, Key in Header/Cookie/JWT

  • reference to SourcesIdentifier resource

• trusted-sources string - defines which traffic sources are very unlikely to be malicious. Used for Machine Learning engine.

• exceptions arrays of strings - defines exceptions to be applied based on e.g. countryCode, countryName, sourceIP, URL, hostName, sourceIdentifier

  • reference to Exception resource(s)

specific-rules list list of one or more per-host (ingress rule) policies that will override the defaults above

• host string - policy will apply to this host

  • network path (exactly as appear in ingress rules)

• All other keys can be used same as decribed above for default.

Practice

Practice resources define which security engine will be active and their settings.

Example

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: Practice
metadata:
  name: webapp-best-practice
spec:
  openapi-schema-validation:
    configmap: []
    override-mode: 'prevent'
  snort-signatures:
    configmap: []
    override-mode: 'prevent'
  web-attacks:
    max-body-size-kb: 1222
    max-header-size-bytes: 44343
    max-object-depth: 2111
    max-url-size-bytes: 34434
    minimum-confidence: high
    override-mode: 'prevent'
    protections:
      csrf-enabled: prevent
      error-disclosure-enabled: prevent
      non-valid-http-methods: true
      open-redirect-enabled: prevent
  anti-bot:
    injected-URIs: []
    validated-URIs: []
    override-mode: 'prevent'

Specification

• web-attacks - open-appsec ML engine settings

  • override-mode string enum - allows overriding the mode defined at the Policy level for this specific engine

    • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

  • minimum-confidence string enum, default: high - defines which security engines to activate and their specific settings

    • medium / high / critical

  • max-url-size-bytes integer, default: 32768

  • max-object-depth integer, default: 40

  • max-body-size-kb integer, default: 102400

  • max-header-size-bytes integer, default: 32768

  • protections - settings for various advanced protections:

    • csrf-enabled string, default: inactive - Cross Site Request Forgery protection

      • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

    • error-disclosure-enabled string, default: inactive - Prevent disclosure of technical information to the attacker in server error messages

      • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

    • open-redirect-enabled string, default: inactive - Protect against URL redirection to untrusted sites

      • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

    • non-valid-http-methods boolean, default: false - Prevent attacker from sending requests with unsafe HTTP methods

      • true / false

• open-api-schema-validation (currently not supported yet, will be added soon)

  • configmap array of strings - specify configmap(s) containing the OpenAPI schema definitions

  • override-mode enum - allows overriding the mode defined at the Policy level for this specific engine

    • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

• anti-bot

  • override-mode enum - allows overriding the mode defined at the Policy level for this specific engine

    • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

  • injected-URIs array of strings - Provide URL(s) where Anti-Bot check is injected with GET request

  • validated-URIs array of strings - Provide URL(s) where result of Anti-Bot check is received from with POST request

• snort-signatures (currently not supported yet, will be added soon)

  • override-mode enum - allows overriding the mode defined at the Policy level for this specific engine

    • prevent-learn / detect-learn / prevent / detect / inactive

  • configmap array of strings - specify configmap(s) containing snort signatures

Custom Response

Practice resources define which security engine will be active and their settings.

Examples

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResponse
metadata:
  name: appsec-web-user-response-example
spec:
  mode: block-page
  http-response-code: 403
  message-title: Block page title
  message-body: "<h1>Access blocked by open-appsec.</h1><p>Your access will be logged.</p>"

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResponse
metadata:
  name: appsec-default-web-user-response
spec:
  mode: response-code-only
  http-response-code: 403

Specification

• mode enum - engine will take one of these actions upon decision to block request

  • block-page - send HTML with text to client + HTTP response code

  • response-code-only - send only response code

• message-title string - title of block page that will be displayed only in case mode is block page and engine decided to block

• message-body string - content of block page that will be displayed only in case mode is block page and engine decided to block

• http-response-code integer between 100-599 - http code that will be returned to client upon engine decision to block; default is 403 - HTTP Forbidden

Log Trigger

Example

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: LogTrigger
metadata:
  name: appsec-special-log-trigger
spec:
  access-control-logging:
    allow-events: false
    drop-events: true
  additional-suspicious-events-logging:
    enabled: true
    minimum-severity: high
    response-body: false
  appsec-logging:
    all-web-requests: false
    detect-events: false
    prevent-events: true
  extended-logging:
    http-headers: false
    request-body: false
    url-path: false
    url-query: false
  log-destination:
    cloud: false
    file: "/a/b/c"
    stdout:
      format: json
    syslog-service:
    - address: 1.2.3.4
      port: 514
    cef-service:
    - address: 5.6.7.8
      port: 514
      proto: tcp

Specification

• access-control-logging - configure logging for Access Control events

  • allow-events boolean, default: false - log access control allow events

    • true / false

  • drop-events boolean, default: true - log access control drop events

    • true / false

• additional-suspicious-events-logging configure additional logging for suspicious events based on a selectable minimum severity-level

  • enabled boolean default: true - enable/disable additional suspicious events logging

    • true / false

  • minimum-severity string enum, default: high - select minimum severity level

    • high / critical

• appsec-logging configure logging for open-appsec events (threat prevention, machine learning)

  • detect-events boolean, default: true - log detected events

    • true / false

  • prevent-events boolean, default: true - log prevented events

    • true / false

  • all-web-requests boolean, default: false - log all web requests (has performance impact!)

    • true / false

  • extended-logging

    • url-path boolean, default: true - log URL path

      • true / false

    • url-query boolean, default: true - log URL query

      • true / false

    • http-headers boolean, default: false - log the HTTP headers (has performance impact!)

      • true / false

    • request-body boolean, default: false - log the request body (has performance impact)

      • true / false

• log-destination

  • cloud boolean, default: false - enable or disable logging to the appsec-open Cloud Service (relevant when being connected to SaaS Mgmt WebUI)

    • true / false

  • file string - define file path to save logs to (local path from root directory of the open-appsec container, could also refer to a mountPath for a mounted Persistent Volume in the container)

  • stdout - configure logging to standard-out

    • format string enum - define the desired log format

      • json / json-formatted - select between formatted or standard json

  • syslog-service objects array - define one or more syslog servers and corresponding ports to send logs to

    • address string - Syslog server IP address

    • port integer - Syslog server port

  • cef-service - allows sending files to a log destination in CEF format

    • address string - CEF server IP address

    • port integer - CEF server port

    • proto string enum Select the correct protocol

      • tcp / udp - Chose TCP or UDP protocol

Exceptions

Example

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: Exception
metadata:
  name: appsec-exception-example
spec:
- action: skip
  comment: This is an example exception comment
  countryCode:
  - CA
  - IL
  countryName:
  - Israel
  - Canada
  hostName:
  - fff
  paramName:
  - key
  paramValue:
  - rrr
  protectionName:
  - cveee
  sourceIdentifier:
  - david
  sourceIp:
  - 1.2.3.4
  - '3.3.3.3'
  url:
  - "/rrr"
- action: accept
  hostName:
  - fff
  url:
  - "/rrr"
- action: drop
  comment: This is an example exception comment
  countryName:
  - Israel
  - Canada
  protectionName:
  - cveee
  sourceIdentifier:
  - david
  sourceIp:
  - 1.2.3.4
  - 2.3.4.5
  url:
  - "/rrr"
- action: suppressLog
  comment: This is an example exception comment
  countryCode:
  - CA
  - IL
  countryName:
  - Israel
  - Canada
  hostName:
  - fff
  url:
  - "/rrr"

Specification

Define a list of actions-objects with the corresponding parameters to match to configure flexible custom exceptions/rules, each having the following configurable keys:

• action string enum - Action to be performed when exception matches

  • skip / accept / drop / suppressLog

• sourceIp string array - Source IP(s)

• url string array - URL(s)

• sourceIdentifier string array - Identified source(s)

• protectionName string array - Protection(s)

• paramValue string array - Parameter value(s)

• paramName string array - Parameter name(s)

• hostName string array - Host name(s)

• countryCode string array - Country code(s)

• countryName string array - Country name(s)

• comment string - Comment for the exception

Trusted Sources

Example

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: TrustedSource
metadata:
  name: appsec-trusted-source-example
spec:
  minNumOfSources: 3
  sourcesIdentifiers: [sources-identifiers-1, sources-identifiers-1]

Specification

Define trusted sources by referencing the source identifiers custom resources as well as setting the minimum amount of sources that need to be observed by the behavioural ML engine sending certain identical traffic patterns in order to learn this behaviour as being benign.

• minNumOfSources integer - Minimum amount of sources having to be observed sending same traffic patterns to learn behaviour as benign.

• sourcesIdentifiers string array - Specify one or more source identifiers

Source Identifiers

Examples

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: SourcesIdentifier
metadata:
  name: appsec-source-identifiers-sourceip-example
spec:
  - sourceIdentifier: sourceip

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: SourcesIdentifier
metadata:
  name: appsec-source-identifiers-JWTKey-example
spec:
  - sourceIdentifier: JWTKey
    value: userfield

apiVersion: openappsec.io/v1beta1
kind: SourcesIdentifier
metadata:
  name: appsec-source-identifiers-x-forwarded-for-example
spec:
  - sourceIdentifier: x-forwarded-for
    value: [1.2.3.4,5.6.7.8]

Specification

Define list of one or more specific source identifiers that can be used in trusted sources custom resources.

• sourceIdentifier string enum - Specify the source identifier type of which the content shall be matched

  • headerkey, JWTKey, cookie, sourceip, x-forwarded-for

• value string array - Content to match the specified sourceIdentifier type

  • For types headerkey, cookie and JWTKey provide the fieldname that designates user

  • For type Source IP no value is required

  • For type x-forwarded-for provide previous proxy hops if there are any