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CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.5.1 L1

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Name: CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.5.1 L1

Updated: 1/4/2021

Authority: CIS

Plugin: Unix

Revision: 1.4

Estimated Item Count: 118

Audit Changelog

 
Revision 1.4

Jan 4, 2021

Miscellaneous
  • Audit deprecated.
  • Metadata updated.
Revision 1.3

Oct 5, 2020

Functional Update
  • 1.1.1 Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.10 Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.11 Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.12 Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd
  • 1.1.13 Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.14 Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.15 Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.16 Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.17 Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.18 Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.19 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.2 Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.20 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.21 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600
  • 1.1.3 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.4 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.5 Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.6 Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.7 Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.1.8 Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
  • 1.1.9 Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 1.2.1 Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false
  • 1.2.10 Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set
  • 1.2.11 Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set
  • 1.2.12 Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set
  • 1.2.13 Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used
  • 1.2.14 Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set
  • 1.2.15 Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set
  • 1.2.16 Ensure that the admission control plugin PodSecurityPolicy is set
  • 1.2.17 Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set
  • 1.2.18 Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set
  • 1.2.19 Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0
  • 1.2.2 Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set
  • 1.2.20 Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0
  • 1.2.21 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false
  • 1.2.22 Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set
  • 1.2.23 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate
  • 1.2.24 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate
  • 1.2.25 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate
  • 1.2.26 Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.2.27 Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true
  • 1.2.28 Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.2.29 Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate - certfile
  • 1.2.29 Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate - keyfile
  • 1.2.3 Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set
  • 1.2.30 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
  • 1.2.30 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
  • 1.2.31 Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.2.32 Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.2.33 Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.2.34 Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured
  • 1.2.35 Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
  • 1.2.4 Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true
  • 1.2.5 Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate - certificate
  • 1.2.5 Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate - key
  • 1.2.6 Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.2.7 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow
  • 1.2.8 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node
  • 1.2.9 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC
  • 1.3.1 Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.3.2 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false
  • 1.3.3 Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true
  • 1.3.4 Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.3.5 Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
  • 1.3.7 Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1
  • 1.4.1 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false
  • 1.4.2 Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1
  • 2.1 Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
  • 2.1 Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
  • 2.2 Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true
  • 2.3 Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true
  • 2.4 Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
  • 2.4 Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
  • 2.5 Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true
  • 2.6 Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true
  • 3.2.1 Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created
  • 4.1.1 Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 4.1.10 Ensure that the kubelet configuration file ownership is set to root:root
  • 4.1.2 Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root
  • 4.1.3 Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 4.1.4 Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root
  • 4.1.5 Ensure that the kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 4.1.6 Ensure that the kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root
  • 4.1.7 Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 4.1.8 Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root
  • 4.1.9 Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive
  • 4.2.1 Ensure that the anonymous-auth argument is set to false
  • 4.2.10 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
  • 4.2.10 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
  • 4.2.11 Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false
  • 4.2.12 Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true
  • 4.2.13 Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
  • 4.2.2 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow
  • 4.2.3 Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
  • 4.2.4 Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0
  • 4.2.5 Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0
  • 4.2.6 Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true
  • 4.2.7 Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true
  • 4.2.8 Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set
  • 5.1.1 Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required
  • 5.1.2 Minimize access to secrets
  • 5.1.3 Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles - clusterroles
  • 5.1.3 Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles - roles
  • 5.1.4 Minimize access to create pods
  • 5.1.5 Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used.
  • 5.1.6 Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary - pods
  • 5.1.6 Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary - serviceaccounts
  • 5.2.1 Minimize the admission of privileged containers
  • 5.2.2 Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace
  • 5.2.3 Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace
  • 5.2.4 Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace
  • 5.2.5 Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation
  • 5.2.7 Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability
  • 5.2.8 Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities
  • 5.3.1 Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies
  • 5.4.1 Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables
  • 5.7.1 Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces
Revision 1.2

Sep 29, 2020

Miscellaneous
  • References updated.
Revision 1.1

Jul 14, 2020

Miscellaneous
  • Metadata updated.