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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

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
  • OpenShift etcd Settings

    Contains rules that check correct OpenShift etcd settings.
    Group
  • Configure A Unique CA Certificate for etcd

    A unique CA certificate should be created for <code>etcd</code>. OpenShift by default creates separate PKIs for etcd and the Kubernetes API server...
    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
  • Disable Anonymous Authentication to the Kubelet

    By default, anonymous access to the Kubelet server is enabled. This configuration check ensures that anonymous requests to the Kubelet server are d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure authorization is set to Webhook

    Unauthenticated/unauthorized users should have no access to OpenShift nodes. The Kubelet should be set to only allow Webhook authorization. To ensu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Configure the Client CA Certificate

    By default, the kubelet is not configured with a CA certificate which can subject the kubelet to man-in-the-middle attacks. To configure a client ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Kubelet - Ensure Event Creation Is Configured

    Security relevant information should be captured. The eventRecordQPS Kubelet option can be used to limit the rate at which events are gathered. Set...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers

    Ensure that the Kubelet is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers. To set the cipher suites for the kubelet, create new or modify exis...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> on the kubelet n...
    Rule Medium Severity

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