NIST 800-53 High-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Use Strong Cryptographic Ciphers on the API Server
To ensure that the API Server is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers, verify the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap co...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure the Certificate Key for the API Server
To ensure the API Server utilizes its own TLS certificates, the <code>tls-private-key-file</code> must be configured. Verify that the <code>apiServ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure APIServer is configured with secure tlsSecurityProfile
<p> The configuration <code>tlsSecurityProfile</code> specifies TLS configurations to be used while establishing connections with th...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable Token-based Authentication
To ensure OpenShift does not accept token-based authentication, follow the OpenShift documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentic...Rule High Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that Audit Log Webhook Is Configured
Audit is on by default and the best practice is to ship audit logs off an cluster for retention. HyperShift is able to do this with the a audit web...Rule Medium Severity -
Authentication
In cloud workloads, there are many ways to create and configure to multiple authentication services. Some of these authentication methods by not be...Group -
Configure An Identity Provider
<p> For users to interact with OpenShift Container Platform, they must first authenticate to the cluster. The authentication layer i...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure OAuth tokens to 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> ...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure OAuth tokens to expire after a set period of inactivity
<p> You can configure OAuth tokens to have have a custom duration. By default, the tokens are valid for 24 hours (86400 seconds). </...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule High Severity -
OpenShift Controller Settings
This section contains recommendations for the kube-controller-manager configurationGroup -
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>...Rule Low Severity -
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<...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Low Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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 ...Rule Medium Severity -
OpenShift etcd Settings
Contains rules that check correct OpenShift etcd settings.Group -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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 ...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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 ...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure That The etcd Peer Client Certificate Is Correctly Set
To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to peers, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace co...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure That The etcd Peer Key File Is Correctly Set
To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to peers, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace co...Rule Medium Severity -
Kubernetes - General Security Practices
Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.Group -
Ensure the alert receiver is configured
In OpenShift Container Platform, an alert is fired when the conditions defined in an alerting rule are true. An alert provides a notification that ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that a OpenShift OAuth login template or a classification banner is set
A legal notice must be configured. <br> This is achievable via the OAuth object by creating a custom login page, storing it in a Kubernetes Secret...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure the notification is enabled for Compliance Operator
The OpenShift platform provides the Compliance Operator for administrators to monitor compliance state of a cluster and provides them with an overv...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure the notification is enabled for file integrity operator
The OpenShift platform provides the File Integrity Operator to monitor for unwanted file changes, and this control ensures proper notification aler...Rule Medium Severity -
Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers
Apply Security Context to your Pods and ContainersRule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure Seccomp Profile Pod Definitions
Enabledefaultseccomp profiles in your pod definitions.Rule Medium Severity -
Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces
Use namespaces to isolate your Kubernetes objects.Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that GitOps Operator is deployed
Red Hat OpenShift GitOps is a declarative continuous delivery platform based on Argo CD. It enables teams to adopt GitOps principles for managing c...Rule Medium Severity -
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...Rule Medium Severity -
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 ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that all daemonsets has resource limits
When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that all deployments has resource limits
When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that all statefulsets has resource limits
When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure workloads use resource requests and limits
There are two ways to enable resource requests and limits. To create either: A multi-project quota, defined by a ClusterResourceQuota object, all...Rule Medium Severity -
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 ...Group -
Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set
To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set
To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...Rule Medium Severity
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