NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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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 -
Configure the Audit Log Path
To enable auditing on the Kubernetes API Server, the audit log path must be set. Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set t...Rule High Severity -
The authorization-mode cannot be AlwaysAllow
Do not always authorize all requests.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure authorization-mode Node is configured
Restrict kubelet nodes to reading only objects associated with them.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure authorization-mode RBAC is configured
To ensure OpenShift restricts different identities to a defined set of operations they are allowed to perform, check that the API server's <code>au...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable basic-auth-file for the API Server
Basic Authentication should not be used for any reason. If needed, edit API Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and remove the...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that the bindAddress is set to a relevant secure port
The bindAddress is set by default to0.0.0.0:6443, and listening with TLS enabled.Rule Low Severity -
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
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