NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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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 -
Check configured allowed registries for import uses secure protocol
The configuration <code>allowedRegistriesForImport</code> limits the container image registries from which normal users may import images. This is ...Rule Medium Severity -
Check if any insecure registry sources is configured
The configuration <code>registrySources.insecureRegistries</code> determines the insecure registries that the OpenShift container runtime can acces...Rule Medium Severity -
OpenShift - Risk Assessment Settings
Contains evaluations for the cluster's risk assessment configuration settings.Group -
Ensure that Compliance Operator is scanning the cluster
<a href="https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/security/compliance_operator/compliance-operator-understanding.html#compliance-operat...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 -
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
Node 2
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