diff --git a/.changeset/silver-bears-wave.md b/.changeset/silver-bears-wave.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9c98220fdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silver-bears-wave.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-kubernetes-backend': patch
+---
+
+Fixed a bug in the proxy endpoint. Now when the `serviceAccount` strategy is used and no `serviceAccountToken` has been provided, the proxy endpoint assumes backstage is running on Kubernetes and gets the URL and CA from the Pod instance.
diff --git a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.test.ts b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.test.ts
index 527cf94a6a..241df1c6f0 100644
--- a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.test.ts
@@ -17,13 +17,19 @@
 import 'buffer';
 import { resolve as resolvePath } from 'path';
 import { errorHandler, getVoidLogger } from '@backstage/backend-common';
-import { setupRequestMockHandlers } from '@backstage/backend-test-utils';
+import {
+  createMockDirectory,
+  setupRequestMockHandlers,
+} from '@backstage/backend-test-utils';
 import { NotFoundError } from '@backstage/errors';
 import {
   AuthorizeResult,
   PermissionEvaluator,
 } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
-import { KubernetesRequestAuth } from '@backstage/plugin-kubernetes-common';
+import {
+  ANNOTATION_KUBERNETES_AUTH_PROVIDER,
+  KubernetesRequestAuth,
+} from '@backstage/plugin-kubernetes-common';
 import { getMockReq, getMockRes } from '@jest-mock/express';
 import express from 'express';
 import Router from 'express-promise-router';
@@ -32,6 +38,7 @@ import { rest } from 'msw';
 import { setupServer } from 'msw/node';
 import request from 'supertest';
 import { AddressInfo, WebSocket, WebSocketServer } from 'ws';
+import { Config } from '@kubernetes/client-node';
 
 import { LocalKubectlProxyClusterLocator } from '../cluster-locator/LocalKubectlProxyLocator';
 import {
@@ -49,6 +56,12 @@ import {
 
 import type { Request } from 'express';
 
+const mockCertDir = createMockDirectory({
+  content: {
+    'ca.crt': 'MOCKCA',
+  },
+});
+
 describe('KubernetesProxy', () => {
   let proxy: KubernetesProxy;
   let authStrategy: jest.Mocked<AuthenticationStrategy>;
@@ -977,4 +990,72 @@ describe('KubernetesProxy', () => {
       await closePromise;
     });
   });
+
+  describe('Backstage running on k8s', () => {
+    const initialHost = process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST;
+    const initialPort = process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT;
+    const initialCaPath = Config.SERVICEACCOUNT_CA_PATH;
+
+    afterEach(() => {
+      process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST = initialHost;
+      process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT = initialPort;
+      Config.SERVICEACCOUNT_CA_PATH = initialCaPath;
+    });
+
+    it('makes in-cluster requests when cluster details has no token', async () => {
+      process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST = '10.10.10.10';
+      process.env.KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT = '443';
+      Config.SERVICEACCOUNT_CA_PATH = mockCertDir.resolve('ca.crt');
+
+      clusterSupplier.getClusters.mockResolvedValue([
+        {
+          name: 'cluster1',
+          url: 'http://ignored',
+          authMetadata: {
+            [ANNOTATION_KUBERNETES_AUTH_PROVIDER]: 'serviceAccount',
+          },
+        },
+      ] as ClusterDetails[]);
+
+      authStrategy.getCredential.mockResolvedValue({
+        type: 'bearer token',
+        token: 'SA_token',
+      });
+
+      worker.use(
+        rest.get(
+          'https://10.10.10.10/api/v1/namespaces',
+          (req: any, res: any, ctx: any) => {
+            if (req.headers.get('Authorization') === 'Bearer SA_token') {
+              return res(
+                ctx.status(200),
+                ctx.json({
+                  kind: 'NamespaceList',
+                  apiVersion: 'v1',
+                  items: [],
+                }),
+              );
+            }
+            return res(ctx.status(403));
+          },
+        ),
+      );
+
+      const requestPromise = setupProxyPromise({
+        proxyPath: '/mountpath',
+        requestPath: '/api/v1/namespaces',
+        headers: {
+          [HEADER_KUBERNETES_CLUSTER]: 'cluster1',
+        },
+      });
+
+      const response = await requestPromise;
+
+      expect(response.body).toStrictEqual({
+        kind: 'NamespaceList',
+        apiVersion: 'v1',
+        items: [],
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts
index 209d01b703..b4536c5880 100644
--- a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts
+++ b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
 } from '@backstage/errors';
 import { getBearerTokenFromAuthorizationHeader } from '@backstage/plugin-auth-node';
 import {
+  ANNOTATION_KUBERNETES_AUTH_PROVIDER,
   KubernetesRequestAuth,
   kubernetesProxyPermission,
 } from '@backstage/plugin-kubernetes-common';
@@ -29,9 +30,15 @@ import {
   AuthorizeResult,
   PermissionEvaluator,
 } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
-import { bufferFromFileOrString } from '@kubernetes/client-node';
+import {
+  Cluster,
+  KubeConfig,
+  bufferFromFileOrString,
+} from '@kubernetes/client-node';
 import { createProxyMiddleware, RequestHandler } from 'http-proxy-middleware';
 import { Logger } from 'winston';
+import fs from 'fs-extra';
+import { Config } from '@kubernetes/client-node';
 
 import { AuthenticationStrategy } from '../auth';
 import { ClusterDetails, KubernetesClustersSupplier } from '../types/types';
@@ -234,6 +241,25 @@ export class KubernetesProxy {
       throw new NotFoundError(`Cluster '${clusterName}' not found`);
     }
 
+    const authProvider =
+      cluster.authMetadata[ANNOTATION_KUBERNETES_AUTH_PROVIDER];
+
+    if (
+      authProvider === 'serviceAccount' &&
+      fs.pathExistsSync(Config.SERVICEACCOUNT_CA_PATH) &&
+      !cluster.authMetadata.serviceAccountToken
+    ) {
+      const kc = new KubeConfig();
+      kc.loadFromCluster();
+      const clusterFromKubeConfig = kc.getCurrentCluster() as Cluster;
+
+      const url = new URL(clusterFromKubeConfig.server);
+      cluster.url = clusterFromKubeConfig.server;
+      if (url.protocol === 'https:') {
+        cluster.caFile = clusterFromKubeConfig.caFile;
+      }
+    }
+
     return cluster;
   }