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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Enable The Peer Client Certificate Authentication

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> <code>ConfigMaps</code> in the <code>opensh...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The etcd Peer Key File Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to peers, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Kubernetes - General Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.
    Group
  • Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers

    Apply Security Context to your Pods and Containers
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The default namespace should not be used

    Kubernetes provides a default namespace, where objects are placed if no namespace is specified for them. Placing objects in this namespace makes ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure Seccomp Profile Pod Definitions

    Enable default seccomp profiles in your pod definitions.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces

    Use namespaces to isolate your Kubernetes objects.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the kubeadmin secret has been removed

    The kubeadmin user is meant to be a temporary user used for bootstrapping purposes. It is preferable to assign system administrators whose users ar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • This is a helper rule to fetch the required api resource for detecting HyperShift OCP version

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    Rule Medium Severity
  • This is a helper rule to fetch the required api resource for detecting OCP version

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    Rule Medium Severity
  • Kubernetes Kubelet Settings

    The Kubernetes Kubelet is an agent that runs on each node in the cluster. It makes sure that containers are running in a pod. The kubelet takes a ...
    Group
  • Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The kubelet Server Key Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS private server key certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</cod...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Disable the Read-Only Port

    To disable the read-only port, edit the kubelet configuration Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>kubelet-re...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • OpenShift - Logging Settings

    Contains evaluations for the cluster's logging configuration settings.
    Group
  • Ensure that the cluster's audit profile is properly set

    <p> OpenShift can audit the details of requests made to the API server through the standard Kubernetes audit capabilities. </p> ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Kubernetes - Network Configuration and Firewalls

    Most systems must be connected to a network of some sort, and this brings with it the substantial risk of network attack. This section discusses th...
    Group
  • Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies

    There are a variety of CNI plugins available for Kubernetes. If the CNI in use does not support Network Policies it may not be possible to effectiv...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that HyperShift Hosted Namespaces have Network Policies defined.

    Use network policies to isolate traffic in your cluster network.
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that application Namespaces have Network Policies defined.

    Use network policies to isolate traffic in your cluster network.
    Rule High Severity

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