--- controls: version: 1.8 id: 1 text: "Master Node Security Configuration" type: "master" groups: - id: 1.1 text: "API Server" checks: - id: 1.1.1 text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--anonymous-auth" compare: op: eq value: false set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --anonymous-auth=false scored: true - id: 1.1.2 text: "Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--basic-auth-file" set: false remediation: | Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and remove the --basic-auth-file= parameter. scored: true - id: 1.1.3 text: "Ensure that the --insecure-allow-any-token argument is not set (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--insecure-allow-any-token" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and remove the --insecure-allow-any-token parameter. scored: true - id: 1.1.4 text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--kubelet-https" compare: op: eq value: true set: true - flag: "--kubelet-https" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and remove the --kubelet-https parameter. scored: true - id: 1.1.5 text: "Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--insecure-bind-address" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and remove the --insecure-bind-address parameter. scored: true - id: 1.1.6 text: "Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0 (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--insecure-port" compare: op: eq value: 0 set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf apiserver.yaml on the master node and set the below parameter. --insecure-port=0 scored: true - id: 1.1.7 text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--secure-port" compare: op: gt value: 0 set: true - flag: "--secure-port" set: false remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or set it to a different (non-zero) desired port. scored: true - id: 1.1.8 text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--profiling" compare: op: eq value: false set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --profiling=false scored: true - id: 1.1.9 text: "Ensure that the --repair-malformed-updates argument is set to false (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--repair-malformed-updates" compare: op: eq value: false set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --repair-malformed-updates=false scored: true - id: 1.1.10 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is not set to AlwaysAdmit (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: nothave value: AlwaysAdmit set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to a value that does not include AlwaysAdmit. scored: true - id: 1.1.11 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to AlwaysPullImages (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "AlwaysPullImages" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to include AlwaysPullImages. --admission-control=...,AlwaysPullImages,... scored: true - id: 1.1.12 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to DenyEscalatingExec (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "DenyEscalatingExec" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to a value that includes DenyEscalatingExec. --admission-control=...,DenyEscalatingExec,... scored: true - id: 1.1.13 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to SecurityContextDeny (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "SecurityContextDeny" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to include SecurityContextDeny. --admission-control=...,SecurityContextDeny,... scored: true - id: 1.1.14 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to NamespaceLifecycle (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "admission-control" compare: op: has value: "NamespaceLifecycle" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to include NamespaceLifecycle. --admission-control=...,NamespaceLifecycle,... scored: true - id: 1.1.15 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-path" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example: --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log scored: true - id: 1.1.16 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-maxage" compare: op: gte value: 30 set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30 or as an appropriate number of days: --audit-log-maxage=30 scored: true - id: 1.1.17 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup" compare: op: gte value: 10 set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate value. --audit-log-maxbackup=10 scored: true - id: 1.1.18 text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize" compare: op: gte value: 100 set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --audit-log-maxsize parameter to an appropriate size in MB. For example, to set it as 100 MB: --audit-log-maxsize=100 scored: true - id: 1.1.19 text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--authorization-mode" compare: op: nothave value: "AlwaysAllow" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow. One such example could be as below. --authorization-mode=RBAC scored: true - id: 1.1.20 text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Scored)" audit: "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 pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and remove the --token-auth-file= parameter. scored: true - id: 1.1.21 text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master 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: 1.1.22 text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: and test_items: - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate" set: true - flag: "--kubelet-client-key" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below. --kubelet-client-certificate= --kubelet-client-key= scored: true - id: 1.1.23 text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--service-account-lookup" compare: op: eq value: true set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --service-account-lookup=true scored: true - id: 1.1.24 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to PodSecurityPolicy (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "PodSecurityPolicy" set: true remediation: | Follow the documentation and create Pod Security Policy objects as per your environment. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to a value that includes PodSecurityPolicy : --admission-control=...,PodSecurityPolicy,... Then restart the API Server. scored: true - id: 1.1.25 text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--service-account-key-file" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter to the public key file for service accounts: --service-account-key-file= scored: true - id: 1.1.26 text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: and test_items: - flag: "--etcd-certfile" set: true - flag: "--etcd-keyfile" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters. --etcd-certfile= --etcd-keyfile= scored: true - id: 1.1.27 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to ServiceAccount (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "ServiceAccount" set: true remediation: | Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to a value that includes ServiceAccount. --admission-control=...,ServiceAccount,... scored: true - id: 1.1.28 text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: and test_items: - flag: "--tls-cert-file" set: true - flag: "--tls-private-key-file" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters. --tls-cert-file= --tls-private-key-file= scored: true - id: 1.1.29 text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--client-ca-file" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the client certificate authority file. --client-ca-file= scored: true - id: 1.1.30 text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--etcd-cafile" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter. --etcd-cafile= scored: true - id: 1.1.31 text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is set to Node (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--authorization-mode" compare: op: has value: "Node" set: true remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node. --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC scored: true - id: 1.1.32 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to NodeRestriction (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "NodeRestriction" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --admission-control parameter to a value that includes NodeRestriction. --admission-control=...,NodeRestriction,... scored: true - id: 1.1.33 text: "Ensure that the --experimental-encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--experimental-encryption-provider-config" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --experimental-encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file: --experimental-encryption-provider-config= scored: true - id: 1.1.34 text: "Ensure that the encryption provider is set to aescbc (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file. In this file, choose aescbc as the encryption provider. For example, kind: EncryptionConfig apiVersion: v1 resources: - resources: - secrets providers: - aescbc: keys: - name: key1 secret: <32-byte base64-encoded secret> scored: true - id: 1.1.35 text: "Ensure that the admission control policy is set to EventRateLimit (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--admission-control" compare: op: has value: "EventRateLimit" set: true remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf and set the below parameters. --admission-control=EventRateLimit --admission-control-config-file= scored: true - id: 1.1.36 text: "Ensure that the AdvancedAuditing argument is not set to false (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired audit policy in the /etc/kubernetes/audit-policy.yaml file. Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf and set the below parameters. --audit-policy-file=/etc/kubernetes/audit-policy.yaml scored: true - id: 1.1.37 text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep" type: "manual" remediation: | Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed. For example, --request-timeout=300s scored: true - id: 1.2 text: "Scheduler" checks: - id: 1.2.1 text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--profiling" compare: op: eq value: false set: true remediation: | Remediation: Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file on the master node and set the below parameter. --profiling=false scored: true - id: 1.3 text: "Controller Manager" checks: - id: 1.3.1 text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold" set: true remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf on the master node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold, for example: --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10 scored: true - id: 1.3.2 text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--profiling" compare: op: eq value: false set: true remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --profiling=false scored: true - id: 1.3.3 text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials" compare: op: eq value: true set: true remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node to set the below parameter. --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 (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file" set: true remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master 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 (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--root-ca-file" set: true remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $apiserverconf on the master node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file. --root-ca-file= scored: true - id: 1.3.6 text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker Containers. scored: false - id: 1.3.7 text: " Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate" compare: op: eq value: true set: true remediation: | Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $apiserverconf controller-manager.yaml on the master node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true. --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true scored: true - id: 1.4 text: "Configuration Files" checks: - id: 1.4.1 text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %a $apiserverconf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 $apiserverconf scored: true - id: 1.4.2 text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf scored: true - id: 1.4.3 text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %a $controllermanagerconf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 $controllermanagerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.4 text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.5 text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %a $schedulerconf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 $schedulerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.6 text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.7 text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c %a $etcdconf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 $etcdconf scored: true - id: 1.4.8 text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c %U:%G $etcdconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root $etcdconf scored: true - id: 1.4.9 text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)" audit: "stat -c %a " type: manual remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 scored: true - id: 1.4.10 text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)" audit: "stat -c %U:%G " type: manual remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root scored: true - id: 1.4.11 text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c %a tests: test_items: - flag: "700" compare: op: eq value: "700" set: true remediation: | On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir , from the below command: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example, chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd scored: true - id: 1.4.12 text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Scored)" audit: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c %U:%G tests: test_items: - flag: "etcd:etcd" set: true remediation: | On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir , from the below command: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd scored: true - id: 1.4.13 text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf scored: true - id: 1.4.14 text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" 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" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf scored: true - id: 1.4.15 text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %a $schedulerconf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 $schedulerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.16 text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.17 text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %a $controllermanagerconf; fi'" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "644" compare: op: eq value: "644" set: true - flag: "640" compare: op: eq value: "640" set: true - flag: "600" compare: op: eq value: "600" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chmod 644 $controllermanagerconf scored: true - id: 1.4.18 text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)" audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'" tests: test_items: - flag: "root:root" compare: op: eq value: "root:root" set: true remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node. For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf scored: true - id: 1.5 text: "etcd" checks: - id: 1.5.1 text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--cert-file" set: true - flag: "--key-file" set: true remediation: | Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption. Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameters. --ca-file= --key-file= scored: true - id: 1.5.2 text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--client-cert-auth" compare: op: eq value: true set: true remediation: | Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --client-cert-auth="true" scored: true - id: 1.5.3 text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--auto-tls" set: false - flag: "--auto-tls" compare: op: neq value: true remediation: | Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false. --auto-tls=false scored: true - id: 1.5.4 text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--peer-cert-file" set: true - flag: "--peer-key-file" set: true remediation: | Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate for your etcd cluster. Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameters. --peer-client-file= --peer-key-file= scored: true - id: 1.5.5 text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth" compare: op: eq value: true set: true remediation: | Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --peer-client-cert-auth=true scored: true - id: 1.5.6 text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--peer-auto-tls" set: false - flag: "--peer-auto-tls" compare: op: eq value: false set: true remediation: | Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false. --peer-auto-tls=false scored: true - id: 1.5.7 text: "Ensure that the --wal-dir argument is set as appropriate (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--wal-dir" set: true remediation: | Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --wal-dir= scored: true - id: 1.5.8 text: "Ensure that the --max-wals argument is set to 0 (Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--max-wals" compare: op: eq value: 0 set: true remediation: | Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --max-wals=0 scored: true - id: 1.5.9 text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Not Scored)" audit: "ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -v grep" tests: test_items: - flag: "--trusted-ca-file" set: true remediation: | Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the etcd service. Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master node and set the below parameter. --trusted-ca-file= scored: false - id: 1.6 text: "General Security Primitives" checks: - id: 1.6.1 text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Remove any unneeded clusterrolebindings : kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name] scored: false - id: 1.6.2 text: "Create Pod Security Policies for your cluster (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the documentation and create and enforce Pod Security Policies for your cluster. Additionally, you could refer the "CIS Security Benchmark for Docker" and follow the suggested Pod Security Policies for your environment. scored: false - id: 1.6.3 text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need them. scored: false - id: 1.6.4 text: "Create network segmentation using Network Policies (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them. scored: false - id: 1.6.5 text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Seccomp is an alpha feature currently. By default, all alpha features are disabled. So, you would need to enable alpha features in the apiserver by passing "--feature- gates=AllAlpha=true" argument. Edit the $apiserverconf file on the master node and set the KUBE_API_ARGS parameter to "--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true" KUBE_API_ARGS="--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true" Based on your system, restart the kube-apiserver service. For example: systemctl restart kube-apiserver.service Use annotations to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions. An example is as below: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: trustworthy-pod annotations: seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/pod: docker/default spec: containers: - name: trustworthy-container image: sotrustworthy:latest scored: false - id: 1.6.6 text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker Containers. scored: false - id: 1.6.7 text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance. scored: false - id: 1.6.8 text: "Configure Network policies as appropriate (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup network policies as appropriate. For example, you could create a "default" isolation policy for a Namespace by creating a NetworkPolicy that selects all pods but does not allow any traffic: apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: NetworkPolicy metadata: name: default-deny spec: podSelector: scored: false - id: 1.6.9 text: "Place compensating controls in the form of PSP and RBAC for privileged containers usage (Not Scored)" type: "manual" remediation: | Follow Kubernetes documentation and setup PSP and RBAC authorization for your cluster. scored: false