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Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Containers Ability to Escalate Privileges

    Containers should be limited to only the privileges required to run and should not be allowed to escalate their privileges. To prevent containers f...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Privileged Container Use

    Containers should be limited to only the privileges required to run. To prevent containers from running as privileged containers, the appropriate S...
    Rule Medium Severity

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