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CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Benchmark - Node

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • kubelet - Do Not Disable Streaming Timeouts

    Timouts for streaming connections should not be disabled as they help to prevent denial-of-service attacks. To configure streaming connection timeo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Kubernetes - Worker Node Settings

    Contains evaluations for the worker node configuration settings.
    Group
  • Verify Group Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the group owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chgrp root /etc/kubernet...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Group Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the group owner of <code>/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chgrp root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/kub...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify User Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the owner of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command:
    $ sudo chown root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig 
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the permissions of <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/kubernet...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Permissions on the Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the permissions of <code>/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chmod 0644 /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</...
    Rule Medium Severity

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