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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Configure the Client Certificate Authority for the API Server

    Certificates must be provided to fully setup TLS client certificate authentication. To ensure the API Server utilizes its own TLS certificates, the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the Encryption Provider Cipher

    <p> When you enable etcd encryption, the following OpenShift API server and Kubernetes API server resources are encrypted: <ul> <li>...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the etcd Certificate Authority for the API Server

    To ensure etcd is configured to make use of TLS encryption for client connections, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connection ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the etcd Certificate for the API Server

    To ensure etcd is configured to make use of TLS encryption for client communications, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connecti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the etcd Certificate Key for the API Server

    To ensure etcd is configured to make use of TLS encryption for client communications, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connecti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true

    The kube-apiserver ensures https to the kubelet by default. The apiserver flag "--kubelet-https" is deprecated and should be either set to "true" o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable Use of the Insecure Bind Address

    OpenShift should not bind to non-loopback insecure addresses. Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and remove the <code>insecur...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Prevent Insecure Port Access

    By default, traffic for the OpenShift API server is served over HTTPS with authentication and authorization, and the secure API endpoint is bound t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate Authority for the API Server

    To ensure OpenShift verifies kubelet certificates before establishing connections, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connection ...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate File for the API Server

    To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate File for the API Server

    To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate Key for the API Server

    To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate Key for the API Server

    To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure the openshift-oauth-apiserver service uses TLS

    By default, the OpenShift OAuth API Server uses TLS. HTTPS should be used for connections between openshift-oauth-apiserver and kube-apiserver. By ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure the openshift-oauth-apiserver service uses TLS

    By default, the OpenShift API Server uses TLS. HTTPS should be used for connections between openshift-apiserver and kube-apiserver. By default, the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Profiling is protected by RBAC

    Ensure that the cluster-debugger cluster role includes the /metrics resource URL. This demonstrates that profiling is protected by RBAC, with a spe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the API Server Minimum Request Timeout

    The API server minimum request timeout defines the minimum number of seconds a handler must keep a request open before timing it out. To set this, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the service-account-lookup argument is set to true

    Validate service account before validating token.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the Service Account Public Key for the API Server

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>serviceAccountPublic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the Certificate for the API Server

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own TLS certificates, the <code>tls-cert-file</code> must be configured. Verify that the <code>apiServerArgum...
    Rule Medium Severity

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