Cis Ocp V190 2.1

CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Benchmark v1.9.0 - Control 2.1

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Description

Configure TLS encryption for the etcd service.

Rationale

etcd is a highly-available key value store used by Kubernetes deployments for persistent storage of all of its REST API objects. These objects are sensitive in nature and should be encrypted in transit.

Impact

Client connections only over TLS would be served.

Audit Procedure

OpenShift uses X.509 certificates to provide secure communication to etcd. OpenShift generates these files and sets the arguments appropriately. OpenShift does not use the etcd-certfile or etcd-keyfile flags.

Keys and certificates for control plane components like kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler and etcd are stored with their respective static pod configurations in the directory /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/*/secrets.

Run the following command to check the value of the --cert-file parameter on all applicable nodes:

for i in $(oc get pods -oname -n openshift-etcd)
do
    oc exec -n openshift-etcd -c etcd $i -- \
      ps -o command= -C etcd | sed 's/.*\(--cert-file=[^ ]*\).*/\1/'
done

Run the following command to check the value of the --key-file parameter on all applicable nodes:

for i in $(oc get pods -oname -n openshift-etcd)
do
    oc exec -n openshift-etcd -c etcd $i -- \
      ps -o command= -C etcd | sed 's/.*\(--key-file=[^ ]*\).*/\1/'
done

Verify that cert-file and key-file values are returned for each etcd member. --cert-file=/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-certs/secrets/etcd-all-serving/etcd-serving-${ETCD_DNS_NAME}.crt --key-file=/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-certs/secrets/etcd-all-serving/etcd-serving-${ETCD_DNS_NAME}.key

Remediation

OpenShift does not use the etcd-certfile or etcd-keyfile flags. Certificates for etcd are managed by the etcd cluster operator.

Default Value

By default, etcd communication is secured with X.509 certificates.

References

1. https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/security/certificate_types_descriptions/etcd-certificates.html
2. https://github.com/openshift/cluster-etcd-operator
3. https://github.com/openshift/cluster-etcd-operator/blob/master/bindata/etcd/pod.yaml#L154-L167
4. https://etcd.io/
5. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd/

CIS Controls

MITRE ATT&CK Mappings

Profile

Level 1 (Manual)