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XCCDF
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-APP-000342-CTR-000775
The default seccomp profile must not be disabled.
The default seccomp profile must not be disabled.
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The default seccomp profile must not be disabled.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>Seccomp filtering provides a means for a process to specify a filter for incoming system calls. The default seccomp profile works on a whitelist basis and allows 311 system calls, blocking all others. It must not be disabled unless it hinders the container application usage. The default seccomp profile blocks syscalls, regardless of --cap-add passed to the container. A large number of system calls are exposed to every user and process, with many of them going unused for the entire lifetime of the process. Most of the applications do not need all the system calls and thus benefit by having a reduced set of available system calls. The reduced set of system calls reduces the total kernel surface exposed to the application and thus improvises application security. When running a container, it uses the default profile unless it is overridden with the --security-opt option.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>