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Docker Enterprise 2.x Linux/UNIX Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • SELinux security options must be set on Red Hat or CentOS systems for Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;SELinux provides a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system on RHEL and CentOS that greatly augments the default Discretionary A...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Linux Kernel capabilities must be restricted within containers as defined in the System Security Plan (SSP) for Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By default, Docker starts containers with a restricted set of Linux Kernel Capabilities. It means that any process may be gra...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Privileged Linux containers must not be used for Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using the --privileged flag gives all Linux Kernel Capabilities to the container thus overwriting the --cap-add and --cap-dro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • SSH must not run within Linux containers for Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;SSH server should not be running within the container. The user should instead use Universal Control Plane (UCP) to console i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Only required ports must be open on the containers in Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Dockerfile for a container image defines the ports to be opened by default on a container instance. The list of ports may or ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Docker Enterprise hosts network namespace must not be shared.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The networking mode on a container when set to --net=host, skips placing the container inside separate network stack. In esse...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Memory usage for all containers must be limited in Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By default, all containers on a Docker host share the resources equally. By using the resource management capabilities of Doc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • Docker Enterprise CPU priority must be set appropriately on all containers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By default, all containers on a Docker host share the resources equally. By using the resource management capabilities of Doc...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • All Docker Enterprise containers root filesystem must be mounted as read only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The container's root filesystem should be treated as a 'golden image' by using Docker run's --read-only option. This prevents...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Docker Enterprise host devices must not be directly exposed to containers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Host devices can be directly exposed to containers at runtime. Do not directly expose host devices to containers especially f...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Mount propagation mode must not set to shared in Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mount propagation mode allows mounting volumes in shared, slave or private mode on a container. Do not use shared mount propa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The Docker Enterprise hosts UTS namespace must not be shared.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;UTS namespaces provide isolation of two system identifiers: the hostname and the NIS domain name. It is used for setting the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The Docker Enterprise default seccomp profile must not be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Seccomp filtering provides a means for a process to specify a filter for incoming system calls. The default Docker seccomp pr...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Docker Enterprise exec commands must not be used with privileged option.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Do not use docker exec with --privileged option. Using --privileged option in docker exec gives extended Linux capabilities ...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Docker Enterprise exec commands must not be used with the user option.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Do not docker exec with --user option. Using --user option in docker exec executes the command within the container as that ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • cgroup usage must be confirmed in Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is possible to attach to a particular cgroup on container run. Confirming cgroup usage would ensure that containers are ru...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • All Docker Enterprise containers must be restricted from acquiring additional privileges.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Restrict the container from acquiring additional privileges via suid or sgid bits. A process can set the no_new_priv bit in ...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The Docker Enterprise hosts user namespace must not be shared.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Do not share the host's user namespaces with the containers. User namespaces ensure that a root process inside the container...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The Docker Enterprise socket must not be mounted inside any containers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The docker socket docker.sock (Linux) and \\.\pipe\docker_engine (Windows) should not be mounted inside a container, with the...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

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  • Docker Enterprise privileged ports must not be mapped within containers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The TCP/IP port numbers below 1024 are considered privileged ports. Normal users and processes are not allowed to use them fo...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

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  • Docker Enterprise incoming container traffic must be bound to a specific host interface.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By default, Docker containers can make connections to the outside world, but the outside world cannot connect to containers. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000149

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  • SAML integration must be enabled in Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Both the Universal Control Plane (UCP) and Docker Trusted Registry (DTR) components of Docker Enterprise leverage the same au...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000175

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  • The certificate chain used by Universal Control Plane (UCP) client bundles must match what is defined in the System Security Plan (SSP) in Docker Enterprise.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Both the UCP and Docker Trusted Registry (DTR) components of Docker Enterprise leverage the same authentication and authoriza...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000176

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  • Docker Enterprise Swarm manager must be run in auto-lock mode.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Run Docker swarm manager in auto-lock mode. When Docker restarts, both the TLS key used to encrypt communication among swarm...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000176

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