NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Configure the kubelet Certificate Key for the API Server
To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...Rule High Severity -
Configure the kubelet Certificate Key for the API Server
To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...Rule High Severity -
Ensure all admission control plugins are enabled
To make sure none of them is explicitly disabled except PodSecurity, run the following command: <pre>$ oc -n openshift-kube-apiserver get configmap...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure the openshift-oauth-apiserver service uses TLS
By default, the OpenShift OAuth API Server uses TLS. HTTPS should be used for connections between openshift-oauth-apiserver and kube-apiserver. By ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure the openshift-oauth-apiserver service uses TLS
By default, the OpenShift API Server uses TLS. HTTPS should be used for connections between openshift-apiserver and kube-apiserver. By default, the...Rule Medium Severity -
Profiling is protected by RBAC
Ensure that the cluster-debugger cluster role includes the /metrics resource URL. This demonstrates that profiling is protected by RBAC, with a spe...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure the API Server Minimum Request Timeout
The API server minimum request timeout defines the minimum number of seconds a handler must keep a request open before timing it out. To set this, ...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure that the service-account-lookup argument is set to true
Validate service account before validating token.Rule Medium Severity -
Configure the Service Account Public Key for the API Server
To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>serviceAccountPublic...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure the Certificate for the API Server
To ensure the API Server utilizes its own TLS certificates, the <code>tls-cert-file</code> must be configured. Verify that the <code>apiServerArgum...Rule Medium Severity -
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
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