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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Enable the ServiceAccount Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure <code>ServiceAccount</code> objects must be created and granted before pod creation is allowed, follow the documentation and create <code...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that anonymous requests to the API Server are authorized

    By default, anonymous access to the OpenShift API is enabled, but at the same time, all requests must be authorized. If no authentication mechanism...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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 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 to 0.0.0.0:6443, and listening with TLS enabled.
    Rule Low Severity

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