Rancher RKE2 keystore must implement encryption to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information at rest within Rancher RKE2.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Encrypting secrets at rest in etcd. By default, RKE2 will create an encryption key and configuration file and pass these to the Kubernetes API server. The result is that RKE2 automatically encrypts Kubernetes Secret objects when writing them to etcd.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-254573r918261_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Enable secrets encryption.
Edit the RKE2 configuration file on all RKE2 servers, located at /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml, so that it contains:
secrets-encryption: true