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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Kubernetes Settings
Security Context Constraints (SCC)
Limit Access to the Host IPC Namespace
Limit Access to the Host IPC Namespace
An XCCDF Rule
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Limit Access to the Host IPC Namespace
Medium Severity
Containers should not be allowed access to the host's Interprocess Communication (IPC) namespace. To prevent containers from getting access to a host's IPC namespace, the appropriate Security Context Constraints (SCCs) should set
allowHostIPC
to
false
.