C-0133 - Ensure that the API Server --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate

Prerequisites

Run Kubescape with host sensor (see here)

Framework

cis-v1.23-t1.0.1

Severity

Medium

Description of the the issue

Kubernetes automatically rotates the log files. Retaining old log files ensures that you would have sufficient log data available for carrying out any investigation or correlation. If you have set file size of 100 MB and the number of old log files to keep as 10, you would approximate have 1 GB of log data that you could potentially use for your analysis.

Related resources

Pod

What does this control test

Rotate log files on reaching 100 MB or as appropriate.

How to check it manually

Run the following command on the Control Plane node:

ps -ef | grep kube-apiserver

Verify that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate.

Remediation

Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml on the Control Plane 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

Impact Statement

None

Default Value

By default, auditing is not enabled.

Example

No example