Kubernetes Misconfig for OCI

Checks Performed

• Access Control And Container Engine For Kubernetes
• An Admission Policy Engine Should Enforce Workload Policy
• Apply Security Context To Your Pods And Containers
• Audit Logging Should Be Enabled And Shipped Off-Cluster
• Client Certificate Authentication Should Not Be Used For Users
• Consider External Secret Storage
• Container Images Should Not Use The latest Or Untagged Tag
• Containers Should Define Liveness And Readiness Probes
• Containers Should Disallow Privilege Escalation
• Containers Should Drop All Linux Capabilities
• Containers Should Not Run In Privileged Mode
• Containers Should Run As Non-Root
• Containers Should Set CPU And Memory Limits
• Containers Should Set CPU And Memory Requests
• Containers Should Use A Read-Only Root Filesystem
• Create Administrative Boundaries Between Resources Using Namespaces
• Encrypt Traffic To HTTPS Load Balancers With TLS Certificates
• Encrypting Kubernetes Secrets At Rest In Etcd
• Ensure Access To OCI Audit Service Log For OKE
• Ensure All Namespaces Have Network Policies Defined
• Ensure Clusters Are Created With Private Endpoint Enabled And Public Access Disabled
• Ensure Clusters Are Created With Private Nodes
• Ensure Default Service Accounts Are Not Actively Used
• Ensure Kubelet Kubeconfig File Ownership Is Set Root
• Ensure Latest CNI Version Is Used
• Ensure Network Policy Is Enabled And Set As Appropriate
• Ensure Service Account Tokens Are Only Mounted Where Necessary
• Every Non-System Namespace Should Have A Default-Deny NetworkPolicy
• Kubelet Anonymous Auth Argument Set To False
• Kubelet Authorization Mode Not Set To AlwaysAllow
• Kubelet Client CA File Argument Set As Appropriate
• Kubelet Configuration File Ownership Set To root:root
• Kubelet Configuration File Permissions Set To 644 Or More Restrictive
• Kubelet Event QPS Argument Set For Appropriate Event Capture
• Kubelet Kubeconfig File Ownership Set To root:root
• Kubelet Kubeconfig File Permissions Set To 644 Or More Restrictive
• Kubelet Make Iptables Util Chains Argument Set To True
• Kubelet Read Only Port Argument Set To 0
• Kubelet Rotate Certificates Argument Not Set To False
• Kubelet Rotate Server Certificates Argument Set To True
• Kubelet Streaming Connection Idle Timeout Not Set To 0
• Kubelet TLS Cert File And TLS Private Key File Arguments Set As Appropriate
• Minimize Access To Create Pods
• Minimize Access To Secrets
• Minimize Admission Of Containers Sharing The Host IPC Namespace
• Minimize Admission Of Containers Sharing The Host Network Namespace
• Minimize Admission Of Containers Sharing The Host Process ID Namespace
• Minimize Admission Of Containers With allowPrivilegeEscalation
• Minimize Cluster Access To Read-Only
• Minimize Container Registries To Only Those Approved
• Minimize The Admission Of Privileged Containers
• Minimize User Access Control To Container Engine For Kubernetes
• Minimize Wildcard Use In Roles And ClusterRoles
• Multi-Replica Deployments Should Have A PodDisruptionBudget
• Mutable Image Tags Should Use imagePullPolicy Always
• Namespaces Should Enforce Pod Security Admission Baseline Or Stricter
• No RoleBinding Should Grant Access To Anonymous Or Unauthenticated Users
• No ServiceAccount Should Be Bound To cluster-admin
• No Workloads Should Run In The default Namespace
• Oracle Cloud Security Penetration and Vulnerability Testing
• Pods Should Be Managed By A Controller
• Pods Should Not Mount HostPath Volumes
• Pods Should Not Share Host Namespaces
• Pods That Do Not Use The API Should Disable Token Automount
• pods/exec Should Not Be Granted To Broad Subjects
• Prefer Bound Projected ServiceAccount Tokens Over Secret Tokens
• Prefer Using Dedicated Service Accounts
• Prefer Using Secrets As Files Over Secrets As Environment Variables
• Restrict Access To The Control Plane Endpoint
• Restrict Use Of Cluster-Admin Role
• Secrets Should Be Encrypted At Rest
• Sensitive Values Should Not Be Passed As Literal Env Vars
• Tenant Namespaces Should Have A ResourceQuota
• The Default Namespace Should Not Be Used