// sensitive information to pass to the CSI driver to complete the CSI
  // ControllerExpandVolume call.
  // This field is optional, and may be empty if no secret is required. If the
  // secret object contains more than one secret, all secrets are passed.
  // +optional
  optional SecretReference controllerExpandSecretRef = 9;

  // nodeExpandSecretRef is a reference to the secret object containing

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

- Use of secret-based service account tokens now adds an `authentication.k8s.io/legacy-token-autogenerated-secret` or `authentication.k8s.io/legacy-token-manual-secret` audit annotation containing the name of the secret used. ([#118598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118598), [@yuanchen8911](https://github.com/yuanchen8911)) [SIG Auth, Instrumentation...

- kubeadm: Allowed to download certificate secrets uploaded by `init` or `upload-certs` phase, allowing to transfer certificate secrets (certificates and keys) from the cluster to other master machines when creating HA deployments. ([#74168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74168), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))...

### Secrets
* Populate environment variables from a secrets. ([#39446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39446), [@fraenkel](https://github.com/fraenkel))

### Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps

Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps graduates to GA. This feature allows users to specify that the contents of a particular Secret or ConfigMap is immutable for its object lifetime. For such instances, Kubelet will not watch/poll for changes and therefore reducing apiserver load.

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

specified as environment variables. When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password information. The configmap is mounted as a file, and the secrets are made available as environment variables. The external controller itself runs as a pod/daemonset. For backward compatibility, we preload...

  - [Changelog since v1.28.8](#changelog-since-v1288)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-1)
    - [CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin](#cve-2024-3177-bypassing-mountable-secrets-policy-imposed-by-the-serviceaccount-admission-plugin)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-6)
    - [Feature](#feature-4)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-6)

## Kubefed

* Deprecate the `--secret-name` flag from `kubefed join`, instead generating the secret name arbitrarily. ([#42513](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42513), [@perotinus](https://github.com/perotinus))


### **Kubernetes API**
#### User Provided Extensions