Issue#2834: Agent Impersonation via JENKINS_SECRET#2836
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Interesting trick, but seems to be addressing what I consider a misconfiguration rather than a vulnerability, and would require the Jenkins controller to have create secrets permission in the agent namespace which it otherwise normally would not.
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Testing done
Closes #2834
Replaced JENKINS_SECRET env var value from plain text to K8s secret in JNLP container. It is created after pod is created with pod as owner. Pod waits for secret removal before it is deleted.
Unit test provided.
Manul test showing part of the output of command
kubectl describe pod xxxafter the fix where jnlp container env vars are shownSubmitter checklist