--- controls: version: "cis-1.6-k3s" id: 4 text: "Worker Node Security Configuration" type: "node" groups: - id: 4.1 text: "Worker Node Configuration Files" checks: - id: 4.1.1 text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.1.2 text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.1.3 text: "If proxy kubeproxy.kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)" audit: stat -c %a $proxykubeconfig tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "permissions" set: true compare: op: bitmask value: "644" - flag: "$proxykubeconfig" set: false remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node. For example, chmod 644 $proxykubeconfig scored: true - id: 4.1.4 text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' ' tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: root:root - flag: "$proxykubeconfig" set: false remediation: | Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node. For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig scored: true - id: 4.1.5 text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)" audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' ' tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "644" remediation: | By default, K3s creates $kubeletkubeconfig with 644 permissions. No manual remediation needed. scored: true - id: 4.1.6 text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' ' tests: test_items: - flag: root:root remediation: | By default, K3s creates $kubeletkubeconfig with root:root ownership. No manual remediation needed. scored: true - id: 4.1.7 text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)" audit: stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletcafile tests: test_items: - flag: "permissions" compare: op: bitmask value: "644" remediation: | By default, K3s creates $kubeletcafile with 644 permissions. scored: true - id: 4.1.8 text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)" audit: stat -c %U:%G $kubeletcafile tests: test_items: - flag: root:root compare: op: eq value: root:root remediation: | By default, K3s creates $kubeletcafile with root:root ownership. scored: true - id: 4.1.9 text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.1.10 text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.2 text: "Kubelet" checks: - id: 4.2.1 text: "Ensure that the anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "anonymous-auth" tests: test_items: - flag: "--anonymous-auth" compare: op: eq value: false remediation: | By default, K3s starts kubelet with --anonymous-auth set to false. No manual remediation needed. scored: true - id: 4.2.2 text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "authorization-mode" tests: test_items: - flag: --authorization-mode compare: op: nothave value: AlwaysAllow remediation: | K3s starts kubelet with Webhook as the value for the --authorization-mode argument. No manual remediation needed. scored: true - id: 4.2.3 text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "client-ca-file" tests: test_items: - flag: --client-ca-file remediation: | By default, K3s starts the kubelet process with the --client-ca-file. No manual remediation needed. scored: true - id: 4.2.4 text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "read-only-port" tests: bin_op: or test_items: - flag: "--read-only-port" compare: op: eq value: 0 - flag: "--read-only-port" set: false remediation: | By default, K3s starts the kubelet process with the --read-only-port argument set to 0. scored: false - id: 4.2.5 text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "streaming-connection-idle-timeout" tests: test_items: - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout compare: op: noteq value: 0 - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout set: false bin_op: or remediation: | By default, K3s does not set --streaming-connection-idle-timeout when starting kubelet. scored: true - id: 4.2.6 text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "protect-kernel-defaults" tests: test_items: - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults compare: op: eq value: true remediation: | K3s server needs to be started with the following, --protect-kernel-defaults=true. scored: true - id: 4.2.7 text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "make-iptables-util-chains" tests: test_items: - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains compare: op: eq value: true - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains set: false bin_op: or remediation: | K3s server needs to be run with the following, --kube-apiserver-arg='make-iptables-util-chains=true'. scored: true - id: 4.2.8 text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.2.9 text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)" audit: /bin/ps -fC containerd tests: test_items: - flag: --event-qps compare: op: eq value: 0 remediation: | If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set eventRecordQPS: to an appropriate level. If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable. Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example: systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart kubelet.service scored: false - id: 4.2.10 text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)" audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep -E 'tls-cert-file|tls-private-key-file' tests: test_items: - flag: --tls-cert-file - flag: --tls-private-key-file remediation: | By default, K3s sets the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments when executing the kubelet process. scored: false - id: 4.2.11 text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.2.12 text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Not Applicable)" scored: false - id: 4.2.13 text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Not Applicable)" scored: false