--- controls: version: "cis-1.24" id: 1 text: "Control Plane Security Configuration" type: "master" groups: - id: 1.1 text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files" checks: - id: 1.1.1 text: "Ensure that the API server configuration file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 $apiserverconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.2 text: "Ensure that the API server configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root $apiserverconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.3 text: "Ensure that the controller manager configuration file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 $controllermanagerconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.4 text: "Ensure that the controller manager configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root $controllermanagerconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.5 text: "Ensure that the scheduler configuration file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 $schedulerconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.6 text: "Ensure that the scheduler configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root $schedulerconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.7 text: "Ensure that the dqlite configuration file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $etcdconf; fi'" use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 $etcdconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.8 text: "Ensure that the dqlite configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c %U:%G $etcdconf; fi'" use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root $etcdconf` scored: true - id: 1.1.9 text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)" audit: | ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a find /etc/cni/net.d/05-cilium.conflist -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 /etc/cni/net.d/05-cilium.conflist` scored: false - id: 1.1.10 text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)" audit: | find /etc/cni/net.d/05-cilium.conflist -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root /etc/cni/net.d/05-cilium.conflist` scored: false - id: 1.1.11 text: "Ensure that the dqlite data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)" audit: | DATA_DIR='/var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite' stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "700" remediation: | Dqlite data are kept by default under /var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite. To comply with the spirit of this CIS recommendation: `chmod 700 /var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite` scored: true - id: 1.1.12 text: "Ensure that the dqlite data directory ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: | DATA_DIR='/var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite' stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Dqlite data are kept by default under /var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite. To comply with the spirit of this CIS recommendation: `chown root:root /var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite` scored: true - id: 1.1.13 text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf` scored: true - id: 1.1.14 text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf` scored: true - id: 1.1.15 text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 $schedulerkubeconfig` scored: true - id: 1.1.16 text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig` scored: true - id: 1.1.17 text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod 600 $controllermanagerkubeconfig` scored: true - id: 1.1.18 text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig` scored: true - id: 1.1.19 text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G" use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/` scored: true - id: 1.1.20 text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)" audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a" use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt` scored: false - id: 1.1.21 text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)" audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a" use_multiple_values: true tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "600" remediation: | Run the following command on the control plane node. `chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key` scored: false - id: 1.2 text: "API Server" checks: - id: 1.2.1 text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--anonymous-auth" compare: op: eq value: false remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the following argument. `--anonymous-auth=false` scored: false - id: 1.2.2 text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--token-auth-file" set: false remediation: | Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file argument. scored: true - id: 1.2.3 text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is not set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: nothave value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs" - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs` from enabled admission plugins. scored: true - id: 1.2.4 text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: and test_items: - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate" - flag: "--kubelet-client-key" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the kubelet client certificate and key parameters as follows. ``` --kubelet-client-certificate= --kubelet-client-key= ``` scored: true - id: 1.2.5 text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority. `--kubelet-certificate-authority=` scored: true - id: 1.2.6 text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--authorization-mode" compare: op: nothave value: "AlwaysAllow" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow. One such example could be as follows. `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC` scored: true - id: 1.2.7 text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--authorization-mode" compare: op: has value: "Node" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node. `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC` scored: true - id: 1.2.8 text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--authorization-mode" compare: op: has value: "RBAC" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC, `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC` scored: true - id: 1.2.9 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: has value: "EventRateLimit" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf and set the following arguments. ``` --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,... --admission-control-config-file= ``` scored: false - id: 1.2.10 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: nothave value: AlwaysAdmit - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a value that does not include AlwaysAdmit. scored: true - id: 1.2.11 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: has value: "AlwaysPullImages" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include AlwaysPullImages. `--enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...` scored: false - id: 1.2.12 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: has value: "SecurityContextDeny" - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: has value: "PodSecurityPolicy" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place. `--enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...` scored: false - id: 1.2.13 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins" compare: op: nothave value: "ServiceAccount" - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins" set: false remediation: | Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a value that does not include ServiceAccount. scored: true - id: 1.2.14 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins" compare: op: nothave value: "NamespaceLifecycle" - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle. scored: true - id: 1.2.15 text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins" compare: op: has value: "NodeRestriction" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a value that includes NodeRestriction. `--enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...` scored: true - id: 1.2.16 text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--secure-port" compare: op: gt value: 0 - flag: "--secure-port" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or set it to a different (non-zero) desired port. scored: true - id: 1.2.17 text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--profiling" compare: op: eq value: false remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the following argument. `--profiling=false` scored: true - id: 1.2.18 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-path" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and file where you would like audit logs to be written. `--audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log` scored: true - id: 1.2.19 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-maxage" compare: op: gte value: 30 remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30 or as an appropriate number of days. `--audit-log-maxage=30` scored: true - id: 1.2.20 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup" compare: op: gte value: 10 remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate value. `--audit-log-maxbackup=10` scored: true - id: 1.2.21 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize" compare: op: gte value: 100 remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxsize parameter to an appropriate size in MB. `--audit-log-maxsize=100` scored: true - id: 1.2.22 text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" type: manual remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf and set the following argument as appropriate and if needed. `--request-timeout=300s` scored: false - id: 1.2.23 text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--service-account-lookup" set: false - flag: "--service-account-lookup" compare: op: eq value: true remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the following argument. `--service-account-lookup=true` Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup argument from this file so that the default takes effect. scored: true - id: 1.2.24 text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--service-account-key-file" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter to the public key file for service accounts. `--service-account-key-file=` scored: true - id: 1.2.25 text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)" tests: test_items: - flag: "--not-applicable" set: false remediation: | Not applicable. Canonical K8s uses dqlite and the communication to this service is done through a local socket (/var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite/k8s-dqlite.sock) accessible to users with root permissions. scored: false - id: 1.2.26 text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: and test_items: - flag: "--tls-cert-file" - flag: "--tls-private-key-file" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters. ``` --tls-cert-file= --tls-private-key-file= ``` scored: true - id: 1.2.27 text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--client-ca-file" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file. `--client-ca-file=` scored: true - id: 1.2.28 text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" tests: test_items: - flag: "--not-applicable" set: false remediation: | Not applicable. Canonical K8s uses dqlite and the communication to this service is done through a local socket (/var/snap/k8s/common/var/lib/k8s-dqlite/k8s-dqlite.sock) accessible to users with root permissions. scored: false - id: 1.2.29 text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--encryption-provider-config" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file. Then, edit the API server configuration file $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file. `--encryption-provider-config=` scored: false - id: 1.2.30 text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)" audit: | ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%') if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi tests: test_items: - flag: "provider" compare: op: valid_elements value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file. In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider. scored: false - id: 1.2.31 text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites" compare: op: valid_elements value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384" remediation: | Edit the API server configuration file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml on the control plane node and set the following argument. ``` --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 ``` scored: false - id: 1.3 text: "Controller Manager" checks: - id: 1.3.1 text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold" remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold. `--terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10` scored: false - id: 1.3.2 text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--profiling" compare: op: eq value: false remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node and set the following argument. `--profiling=false` scored: true - id: 1.3.3 text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials" compare: op: noteq value: false remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node to set the following argument. `--use-service-account-credentials=true` scored: true - id: 1.3.4 text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file" remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter to the private key file for service accounts. `--service-account-private-key-file=` scored: true - id: 1.3.5 text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--root-ca-file" remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file. `--root-ca-file=` scored: true - id: 1.3.6 text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--feature-gates" compare: op: nothave value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false" set: true - flag: "--feature-gates" set: false remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true. `--feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true` scored: true - id: 1.3.7 text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--bind-address" compare: op: eq value: "127.0.0.1" remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager configuration file $controllermanagerconf on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter and restart the controller manager service scored: true - id: 1.4 text: "Scheduler" checks: - id: 1.4.1 text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--profiling" compare: op: eq value: false remediation: | Edit the Scheduler configuration file $schedulerconf file on the control plane node and set the following argument. `--profiling=false` scored: true - id: 1.4.2 text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)" audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--bind-address" compare: op: eq value: "127.0.0.1" remediation: | Edit the Scheduler configuration file $schedulerconf on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter and restart the kube-scheduler service scored: true