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CIS Kubernetes 1.13 Benchmark v1.4.1 L1
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Revision 1.4
Changelog
Revision 1.4
Oct 5, 2020
Functional Update
1.1.1 Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false
1.1.10 Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set
1.1.11 Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set
1.1.13 Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set
1.1.14 Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set
1.1.15 Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set as appropriate
1.1.16 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate
1.1.17 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate
1.1.18 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate
1.1.19 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow
1.1.2 Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set
1.1.20 Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set
1.1.21 Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate
1.1.22 Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate - certificate
1.1.22 Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate - key
1.1.23 Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true
1.1.24 Ensure that the admission control plugin PodSecurityPolicy is set
1.1.25 Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate
1.1.26 Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate - certfile
1.1.26 Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate - keyfile
1.1.27 Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set
1.1.28 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
1.1.28 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
1.1.29 Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
1.1.3 Ensure that the --insecure-allow-any-token argument is not set
1.1.30 Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
1.1.31 Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate
1.1.32 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node
1.1.33 Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set
1.1.34 Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate
1.1.35 Ensure that the encryption provider is set to aescbc
1.1.36 Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set
1.1.37 Ensure that the AdvancedAuditing argument is not set to false - @AUDIT_POLICY_FILE@
1.1.37 Ensure that the AdvancedAuditing argument is not set to false - AdvancedAuditing
1.1.37 Ensure that the AdvancedAuditing argument is not set to false - audit-policy-file
1.1.38 Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate
1.1.39 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC
1.1.4 Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true
1.1.5 Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set
1.1.6 Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0
1.1.7 Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0
1.1.8 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false
1.1.9 Ensure that the --repair-malformed-updates argument is set to false
1.2.1 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false
1.2.2 Ensure that the --address argument is set to 127.0.0.1
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
1.3.6 Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true
1.3.7 Ensure that the --address argument is set to 127.0.0.1
1.4.1 Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.10 Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.11 Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive
1.4.12 Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd
1.4.13 Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.14 Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.15 Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.16 Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.17 Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.18 Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.19 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.2 Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.20 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.21 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600
1.4.3 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.4 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.5 Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.6 Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.7 Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.4.8 Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
1.4.9 Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
1.5.1 Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
1.5.1 Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
1.5.2 Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true
1.5.3 Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true
1.5.4 Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
1.5.4 Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
1.5.5 Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true
1.5.6 Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true
1.6.1 Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required
1.6.2 Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces
1.7.1 Do not admit privileged containers
1.7.2 Do not admit containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace
1.7.3 Do not admit containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace
1.7.4 Do not admit containers wishing to share the host network namespace
1.7.5 Do not admit containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation
2.1.1 Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false
2.1.10 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - cert
2.1.10 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate - key
2.1.12 Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false
2.1.13 Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true
2.1.14 Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
2.1.2 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow
2.1.3 Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
2.1.4 Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0
2.1.5 Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0
2.1.6 Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true
2.1.7 Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true
2.1.8 Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set
2.1.9 Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0
2.2.1 Ensure that the kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
2.2.10 Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive
2.2.2 Ensure that the kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root
2.2.3 Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
2.2.4 Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root
2.2.5 Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
2.2.6 Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root
2.2.7 Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
2.2.8 Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root
2.2.9 Ensure that the kubelet configuration file ownership is set to root:root