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Kubernetes provides the option to use client certificates for user authentication. However as there is no way to revoke these certificates when a user leaves an organization or loses their credential, they are not suitable for this purpose. It is not possible to fully disable client certificate use within a cluster as it is used for component to component authentication.

Risk Level

High

Address

Security, Reliability

Compliance Standards

CISGKE

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration “Client Certificate Authentication Should Not Be Used For Users” for GCP using GCP console, follow the below steps:

  1. Login to the GCP console.
  2. Navigate to the Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy page.
  3. Select the project for which you want to remediate the misconfiguration.
  4. Click on the Edit button for the resource you want to modify.
  5. Under the “Authentication” section, select the “OAuth” option.
  6. Next, select the “User-managed” option and click on the “Save” button.
  7. Verify that the change has been applied by checking that the “Client Certificate” option is no longer selected under the “Authentication” section.

By following these steps, you have successfully remediated the misconfiguration “Client Certificate Authentication Should Not Be Used For Users” for GCP using GCP console.

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