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Ensure that if the kubelet refers to a configuration file with the —config argument, that file has permissions of 644 or more restrictive.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

  • CIS Kubernetes

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Using Console

Automated AAC auditing has been modified to allow CIS-CAT to input a variable for the <PATH>/<FILENAME> of the kubelet config yaml file. Please set $kubelet_config_yaml=<PATH> based on the file location on your system for example: export kubelet_config_yaml=/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml To perform the audit manually: Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on each worker node. For example, stat -c %a /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml Verify that the permissions are 600 or more restrictive.

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