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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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
  • Security Context Constraints (SCC)

    Similar to the way that RBAC resources control user access, administrators can use Security Context Constraints (SCCs) to control permissions for p...
    Group
  • Drop Container Capabilities

    Containers should not enable more capabilities than needed as this opens the door for malicious use. To disable the capabilities, the appropriate S...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Container Capabilities

    <p> Containers should not enable more capabilites than needed as this opens the door for malicious use. To enable only the required ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Access to the Host IPC Namespace

    Containers should not be allowed access to the host's Interprocess Communication (IPC) namespace. To prevent containers from getting access to a ho...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Use of the CAP_NET_RAW

    Containers should not enable more capabilities than needed as this opens the door for malicious use. <code>CAP_NET_RAW</code> enables a container t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Access to the Host Network Namespace

    Containers should not be allowed access to the host's network namespace. To prevent containers from getting access to a host's network namespace, t...
    Rule Medium Severity

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