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PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Control Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Kubernetes Settings

    Each section of this configuration guide includes information about the configuration of a Kubernetes cluster and a set of recommendations for hard...
    Group
  • System and Software Integrity

    System and software integrity can be gained by installing antivirus, increasing system encryption strength with FIPS, verifying installed software,...
    Group
  • Ensure that File Integrity Operator is scanning the cluster

    <a href="https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/security/file_integrity_operator/file-integrity-operator-understanding.html">The File In...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • System Cryptographic Policies

    OpenShift has the capability to centrally configure cryptographic polices.
    Group
  • Ensure that full disk encryption is configured on cluster nodes

    When full disk encryption is chosen as a way to protect card data at rest, OpenShift can provide several solutions depending on the hosting environ...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that EBS volumes declared in storageclasses are encrypted

    OpenShift StorageClasses can be configured to enable EBS encryption on EBS volumes that are used later as persistent volumes. By using EBS encrypti...
    Rule High Severity
  • Kubernetes - Account and Access Control

    In traditional Unix security, if an attacker gains shell access to a certain login account, they can perform any action or access any file to which...
    Group
  • Restrict Automounting of Service Account Tokens

    Service accounts tokens should not be mounted in pods except where the workload running in the pod explicitly needs to communicate with the API ser...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure Usage of Unique Service Accounts

    Using the <code>default</code> service account prevents accurate application rights review and audit tracing. Instead of <code>default</code>, crea...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • OpenShift Kube API Server

    This section contains recommendations for kube-apiserver configuration.
    Group
  • Disable the AlwaysAdmit Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure OpenShift only responses to requests explicitly allowed by the admission control plugin. Check that the <code>config</code> ConfigMap obj...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the Admission Control Plugin AlwaysPullImages is not set

    The <code>AlwaysPullImages</code> admission control plugin should be disabled, since it can introduce new failure modes for control plane component...
    Rule High Severity
  • Enable the NamespaceLifecycle Admission Control Plugin

    OpenShift enables the NamespaceLifecycle plugin by default.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the NodeRestriction Admission Control Plugin

    To limit the <code>Node</code> and <code>Pod</code> objects that a kubelet could modify, ensure that the <code>NodeRestriction</code> plugin on kub...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the SecurityContextConstraint Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure pod permissions are managed, make sure that the SecurityContextConstraint admission control plugin is used.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the ServiceAccount Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure <code>ServiceAccount</code> objects must be created and granted before pod creation is allowed, follow the documentation and create <code...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that anonymous requests to the API Server are authorized

    By default, anonymous access to the OpenShift API is enabled, but at the same time, all requests must be authorized. If no authentication mechanism...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the APIPriorityAndFairness feature gate

    To limit the rate at which the API Server accepts requests, make sure that the API Priority and Fairness feature is enabled. Using <code>APIPriorit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the Kubernetes API Server Maximum Retained Audit Logs

    To configure how many rotations of audit logs are retained, edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>audit-log-ma...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Configure Kubernetes API Server Maximum Audit Log Size

    To rotate audit logs upon reaching a maximum size, edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>audit-log-maxsize</co...
    Rule Medium Severity

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