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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • kubelet - Do Not Disable Streaming Timeouts

    Timeouts for streaming connections should not be disabled as they help to prevent denial-of-service attacks. To configure streaming connection timeouts, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/e...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Ensure that the --read-only-port is secured

    Disable the read-only port.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that Audit Log Forwarding Uses TLS

    <p> OpenShift audit works at the API server level, logging all requests coming to the server. Audit is on by default and the best practice is to ship audit logs off the cluster for r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift SDN Container Network Interface Plugin IP Address Allocations

    To properly set the owner of /var/lib/cni/networks/openshift-sdn/.*, run the command:
    $ sudo chown root /var/lib/cni/networks/openshift-sdn/.* 
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift Admin Kubeconfig Files

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-apiserver-certs/secrets/node-kubeconfigs/*.kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift PKI Private Key Files

    To properly set the owner of /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/*/*/*/*.key, run the command:
    $ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/*/*/*/*.key 
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift SDN CNI Server Config

    To properly set the owner of /var/run/openshift-sdn/cniserver/config.json, run the command:
    $ sudo chown root /var/run/openshift-sdn/cniserver/config.json 
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The Kubernetes Scheduler Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-scheduler-pod-*/configmaps/scheduler-kubeconfig/kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kuberne...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on the Etcd Member Pod Specification File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd-pod.yaml, run the command:
    $ sudo chmod 0600 /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd-pod.yaml
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on the Kube Scheduler Pod Specification File

    To properly set the permissions of <code>/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-scheduler-pod.yaml</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chmod 0600 /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-sche...
    Rule Medium Severity

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