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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

  • Role-based Access Control

    Role-based access control (RBAC) objects determine whether a user is allowed to perform a given action within a project. Cluster administrators ca...
    Group
  • Ensure cluster roles are defined in the cluster

    <p> RBAC is a critical feature in terms of security for Kubernetes and OpenShift. It enables administrators to segment the privilege...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Profiling is protected by RBAC

    Ensure that the cluster-debugger cluster role includes the /debug/pprof resource URL. This demonstrates that profiling is protected by RBAC, with a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the RBAC setup follows the principle of least privilege

    Role-based access control (RBAC) objects determine whether a user is allowed to perform a given action within a project. If users or groups exist ...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required

    The RBAC role cluster-admin provides wide-ranging powers over the environment and should be used only where and when needed.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Access to Kubernetes Secrets

    The Kubernetes API stores secrets, which may be service account tokens for the Kubernetes API or credentials used by workloads in the cluster. Acce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the ClusterLogging and ClusterLoggingForwarder resources are protected from unauthorized deletion

    The ClusterLogging and ClusterLoggingForwarder Custom Resources provide a way to configure the logging forwarding subsystem and delete access to i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the ClusterLogging and ClusterLoggingForwarder resources are protected from unauthorized modification

    The ClusterLogging and ClusterLoggingForwarder Custom Resources provide a way to configure the logging forwarding subsystem and modification acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the ClusterLogging and ClusterLoggingForwarder resources are protected from unauthorized access

    The ClusterLogging and ClusterLoggingForwarder Custom Resources provide a way to configure the logging forwarding subsystem and view access to it ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Minimize Access to Pod Creation

    The ability to create pods in a namespace can provide a number of opportunities for privilege escalation. Where applicable, remove <code>create</co...
    Rule Medium Severity

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