NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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OpenShift - Logging Settings
Contains evaluations for the cluster's logging configuration settings.Group -
Ensure that Audit Log Errors Emit Alerts
<p> OpenShift audit works at the API server level, logging all requests coming to the server. However, if API server instance is unable to write er...Rule High Severity -
Ensure that Audit Log Forwarding Uses TLS
<p> OpenShift audit works at the API server level, logging all requests coming to the server. Audit is on by default and the best pr...Rule Medium Severity -
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 cluster-wide proxy is set
<p> Production environments can deny direct access to the Internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. </p> ...Rule Medium Severity -
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 -
Ensure that the default Ingress CA (wildcard issuer) has been replaced
Check that the default Ingress CA has been replaced.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that the default Ingress certificate has been replaced
Check that the default Ingress certificate has been replaced.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure IngressController is configured to use secure tlsSecurityProfile
<p> The configuration <code>tlsSecurityProfile</code> specifies TLS configurations to be used while establishing connections with th...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that all Routes has rate limit enabled
OpenShift has an option to set the IP whitelist for Routes [1] when creating new Routes. All routes outside the openshift namespaces and the kube ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that all OpenShift Routes prefer TLS
OpenShift Container Platform provides methods for communicating from outside the cluster with services running in the cluster. TLS must be used to ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that all Routes has rate limit enabled
OpenShift has an option to set the rate limit for Routes [1] when creating new Routes. All routes outside the openshift namespaces and the kube nam...Rule Medium Severity -
OpenShift API Server
This section contains recommendations for openshift-apiserver configuration.Group -
Configure the OpenShift API Server Maximum Retained Audit Logs
To configure how many rotations of audit logs are retained, edit the <code>openshift-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>audit-log-maxback...Rule Low Severity -
Configure OpenShift API Server Maximum Audit Log Size
To rotate audit logs upon reaching a maximum size, edit the <code>openshift-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>audit-log-maxsize</code> p...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure the Audit Log Path
To enable auditing on the OpenShift API Server, the audit log path must be set. Edit the <code>openshift-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <co...Rule High Severity -
Role-based Access Control
Role-based access control (RBAC) objects determine whether a user is allowed to perform a given action within a project. Cluster administrators ca...Group -
Profiling is protected by RBAC
Ensure that the cluster-debugger cluster role includes the /debug/pprof resource URL. This demonstrates that profiling is protected by RBAC, with a...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that the RBAC setup follows the principle of least privilege
Role-based access control (RBAC) objects determine whether a user is allowed to perform a given action within a project. If users or groups exist ...Rule High Severity -
Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required
The RBAC role cluster-admin provides wide-ranging powers over the environment and should be used only where and when needed.Rule Medium Severity -
Limit Access to Kubernetes Secrets
The Kubernetes API stores secrets, which may be service account tokens for the Kubernetes API or credentials used by workloads in the cluster. Acce...Rule Medium Severity -
Minimize Access to Pod Creation
The ability to create pods in a namespace can provide a number of opportunities for privilege escalation. Where applicable, remove <code>create</co...Rule Medium Severity -
Minimize Wildcard Usage in Cluster and Local Roles
Kubernetes Cluster and Local Roles provide access to resources based on sets of objects and actions that can be taken on those objects. It is possi...Rule Medium Severity -
Kubernetes - Registry Security Practices
Contains evaluations for Kubernetes registry security practices, and cluster-wide registry configuration.Group -
Allowed registries are configured
The configuration <code>registrySources.allowedRegistries</code> determines the permitted registries that the OpenShift container runtime can acces...Rule Medium Severity -
Allowed registries for import are configured
The configuration <code>allowedRegistriesForImport</code> limits the container image registries from which normal users may import images. This is ...Rule Medium Severity
Node 2
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