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# Ensure Service Account Tokens Are Only Mounted Where Necessary

### More Info:

Service accounts tokens should not be mounted in pods except where the workload running in the pod explicitly needs to communicate with the API server

### Risk Level

Medium

### Address

Security

### Compliance Standards

* CIS Kubernetes

### Triage and Remediation

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Remediation">
    ### Remediation

    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Using Console" defaultOpen="true">
        Review pod and service account objects in the cluster and ensure that the option belowis set, unless the resource explicitly requires this access.automountServiceAccountToken: false
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

### Additional Reading:

* [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-service-account/](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-service-account/)