CNTR-K8-000150 - The Kubernetes Controller Manager must use TLS 1.2, at a minimum, to protect the confidentiality of sensitive data during electronic dissemination.

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Information

The Kubernetes Controller Manager will prohibit the use of SSL and unauthorized versions of TLS protocols to properly secure communication.

The use of unsupported protocol exposes vulnerabilities to the Kubernetes by rogue traffic interceptions, man-in-the-middle attacks, and impersonation of users or services from the container platform runtime, registry, and key store. To enable the minimum version of TLS to be used by the Kubernetes Controller Manager, the setting 'tls-min-version' must be set.

Solution

Edit the Kubernetes Controller Manager manifest file in the /etc/kubernetes/manifests directory on the Kubernetes Master Node. Set the value of '--tls-min-version' to 'VersionTLS12' or higher.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Kubernetes_V1R5_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000068, Rule-ID|SV-242376r712484_rule, STIG-ID|CNTR-K8-000150, Vuln-ID|V-242376

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: b08d831eefd50d068e41f2db271881c05ac33228401666045271d33b84d7a963