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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

  • OpenShift - Risk Assessment Settings

    Contains evaluations for the cluster's risk assessment configuration settings.
    Group
  • Verify User Who Owns the Worker Certificate Authority File

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-ca.crt</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/kubelet-ca.crt <...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Make sure the Container Security Operator is installed

    <p> Using the Red Hat Quay Container Security Operator, you can access vulnerability scan results from the OpenShift Container Platf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that Compliance Operator is scanning the cluster

    <a href="https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/security/compliance_operator/compliance-operator-understanding.html#compliance-operat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that Compliance Operator scans are running periodically

    <a href="https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/security/compliance_operator/compliance-operator-understanding.html#compliance-operat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Security Context Constraints (SCC)

    Similar to the way that RBAC resources control user access, administrators can use Security Context Constraints (SCCs) to control permissions for p...
    Group
  • Permitted SCCs with allowedCapabilities

    A regular expression that lists all SCCs that are permitted to set the allowedCapabilities attribute
    Value
  • Drop Container Capabilities

    Containers should not enable more capabilities than needed as this opens the door for malicious use. To disable the capabilities, the appropriate S...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Container Capabilities

    <p> Containers should not enable more capabilites than needed as this opens the door for malicious use. To enable only the required ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Containers Ability to use the HostDir volume plugin

    Containers should be allowed to use the <code>hostPath</code> volume type unless necessary. To prevent containers from using the host filesystem th...
    Rule Medium Severity

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