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DISA STIG for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 - Platform level

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  • Ensure that Audit Log Forwarding Is Enabled

    OpenShift audit works at the API server level, logging all requests coming to the server. Audit is on by default and the best practice is to ship a...
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  • Authentication

    In cloud workloads, there are many ways to create and configure to multiple authentication services. Some of these authentication methods by not be...
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  • Configure An Identity Provider

    <p> For users to interact with OpenShift Container Platform, they must first authenticate to the cluster. The authentication layer i...
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  • Configure OAuth clients so that tokens expire after a set period of inactivity

    <p> You can configure OAuth tokens to expire after a set period of inactivity. By default, no token inactivity timeout is set. </p> ...
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  • Do Not Use htpasswd-based IdP

    <p> For users to interact with OpenShift Container Platform, they must first authenticate to the cluster. The authentication layer i...
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  • Only Use LDAP-based IdPs with TLS

    <p> For users to interact with OpenShift Container Platform, they must first authenticate to the cluster. The authentication layer i...
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  • OpenShift Controller Settings

    This section contains recommendations for the kube-controller-manager configuration
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  • Ensure Controller insecure port argument is unset

    To ensure the Controller Manager service is bound to secure loopback address and a secure port, set the <code>RotateKubeletServerCertificate</code>...
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  • Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set

    To enforce kubelet server certificate rotation on the Controller Manager, set the <code>RotateKubeletServerCertificate</code> option to <code>true<...
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  • Ensure Controller secure-port argument is set

    To ensure the Controller Manager service is bound to secure loopback address using a secure port, set the <code>RotateKubeletServerCertificate</cod...
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  • Configure the Service Account Certificate Authority Key for the Controller Manager

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, set the <code>masterCA</code> parameter to the public key file for service accounts in the <cod...
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  • Configure the Service Account Private Key for the Controller Manager

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, set the <code>privateKeyFile</code> parameter to the public key file for service accounts in th...
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  • Ensure that use-service-account-credentials is enabled

    To ensure individual service account credentials are used, set the <code>use-service-account-credentials</code> option to <code>true</code> in the ...
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  • OpenShift etcd Settings

    Contains rules that check correct OpenShift etcd settings.
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  • Disable etcd Self-Signed Certificates

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is not using self-signed certificates, run the following command: <pre>$ oc get cm/etcd-pod -n openshift-et...
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  • Ensure That The etcd Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

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

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace ...
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  • Disable etcd Peer Self-Signed Certificates

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is not using self-signed certificates, run the following command: <pre>$ oc get cm/etcd-pod -n openshift-et...
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  • 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...
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  • Kubernetes - General Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.
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  • Enable Classification Banner on OpenShift Console

    A classification banner can be configured by creating a Console Notification CRD on OpenShift
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  • Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers

    Apply Security Context to your Pods and Containers
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  • Manage Image Provenance Using ImagePolicyWebhook

    OpenShift administrators can control which images can be imported, tagged, and run in a cluster. There are two facilities for this purpose: (1) All...
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  • 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...
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  • Ensure Seccomp Profile Pod Definitions

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

    Use namespaces to isolate your Kubernetes objects.
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  • 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...
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  • Ensure that the OpenShift OAuth login template is set

    A legal notice can be configured via a customized login template. <br> This is achievable via the OAuth object by creating a custom login page, st...
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  • Ensure that the OpenShift OAuth logout URL is set

    The user can be redirected to a configured URL upon logout <br> This is achievable via the OAuth object by setting the <code>logoutRedirect</code>...
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  • Ensure that the OpenShift OAuth provider selection is set

    Custom login pages can be helpful to show users a branded page that they trust and expect before being redirected to the authentication provider. <...
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  • Ensure that the OpenShift MOTD is set

    To configure OpenShift's MOTD, create a <b>ConfigMap</b> called <code>motd</code> in the <code>openshift</code> namespace. The object should look ...
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  • Ensure that project templates autocreate Resource Quotas

    <p> Configure a template for newly created projects to use default resource quotas and make sure this template is referenced from th...
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  • Ensure workloads use resource requests and limits per namespace

    There are two ways to enable resource requests and limits. To create either: A multi-project quota, defined by a ClusterResourceQuota object, all...
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  • This is a helper rule to fetch the required api resource for detecting HyperShift OCP version

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

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  • 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 ...
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  • 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...
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  • OpenShift - Logging Settings

    Contains evaluations for the cluster's logging configuration settings.
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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> ...
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  • Ensure that OpenShift Logging Operator is scanning the cluster

    OpenShift Logging Operator provides ability to aggregate all the logs from the OpenShift Container Platform cluster, such as node system audit logs...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Ensure that application Namespaces have Network Policies defined.

    Use network policies to isolate traffic in your cluster network.
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  • 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...
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  • Ensure that project templates autocreate Network Policies

    Configure a template for newly created projects to use default network policies and make sure this template is referenced from the default project ...
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  • 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...
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  • OpenShift API Server

    This section contains recommendations for openshift-apiserver configuration.
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