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C-0001 - Forbidden Container Registries
C-0002 - Prevent containers from allowing command execution
C-0004 - Resources memory limit and request
C-0005 - API server insecure port is enabled
C-0007 - Roles with delete capabilities
C-0009 - Resource limits
C-0012 - Applications credentials in configuration files
C-0013 - Non-root containers
C-0014 - Access Kubernetes dashboard
C-0015 - List Kubernetes secrets
C-0016 - Allow privilege escalation
C-0017 - Immutable container filesystem
C-0018 - Configured readiness probe
C-0020 - Mount service principal
C-0021 - Exposed sensitive interfaces
C-0026 - Kubernetes CronJob
C-0030 - Ingress and Egress blocked
C-0031 - Delete Kubernetes events
C-0034 - Automatic mapping of service account
C-0035 - Administrative Roles
C-0036 - Validate admission controller (validating)
C-0037 - CoreDNS poisoning
C-0038 - Host PID/IPC privileges
C-0039 - Validate admission controller (mutating)
C-0041 - HostNetwork access
C-0042 - SSH server running inside container
C-0044 - Container hostPort
C-0045 - Writable hostPath mount
C-0046 - Insecure capabilities
C-0048 - HostPath mount
C-0049 - Network mapping
C-0050 - Resources CPU limit and request
C-0052 - Instance Metadata API
C-0053 - Access container service account
C-0054 - Cluster internal networking
C-0055 - Linux hardening
C-0056 - Configured liveness probe
C-0057 - Privileged container
C-0058 - CVE-2021-25741 - Using symlink for arbitrary host file system access.
C-0059 - CVE-2021-25742-nginx-ingress-snippet-annotation-vulnerability
C-0061 - Pods in default namespace
C-0062 - Sudo in container entrypoint
C-0063 - Portforwarding privileges
C-0065 - No impersonation
C-0066 - Secret/etcd encryption enabled
C-0067 - Audit logs enabled
C-0068 - PSP enabled
C-0069 - Disable anonymous access to Kubelet service
C-0070 - Enforce Kubelet client TLS authentication
C-0073 - Naked pods
C-0074 - Container runtime socket mounted
C-0075 - Image pull policy on latest tag
C-0076 - Label usage for resources
C-0077 - K8s common labels usage
C-0078 - Images from allowed registry
C-0079 - CVE-2022-0185-linux-kernel-container-escape
C-0081 - CVE-2022-24348-argocddirtraversal
C-0083 - Workloads with Critical vulnerabilities exposed to external traffic
C-0084 - Workloads with RCE vulnerabilities exposed to external traffic
C-0085 - Workloads with excessive amount of vulnerabilities
C-0087 - CVE-2022-23648-containerd-fs-escape
C-0088 - RBAC enabled
C-0089 - CVE-2022-3172-aggregated-API-server-redirect
C-0090 - CVE-2022-39328-grafana-auth-bypass
C-0091 - CVE-2022-47633-kyverno-signature-bypass
C-0092 - Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0093 - Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
C-0094 - Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0095 - Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
C-0096 - Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0097 - Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
C-0098 - Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0099 - Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root
C-0100 - Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0101 - Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root
C-0102 - Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive
C-0103 - Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd
C-0104 - Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600
C-0105 - Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root
C-0106 - Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0107 - Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root
C-0108 - Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0109 - Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root
C-0110 - Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root
C-0111 - Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0112 - Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600
C-0113 - Ensure that the API Server --anonymous-auth argument is set to false
C-0114 - Ensure that the API Server --token-auth-file parameter is not set
C-0115 - Ensure that the API Server --DenyServiceExternalIPs is not set
C-0116 - Ensure that the API Server --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate
C-0117 - Ensure that the API Server --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate
C-0118 - Ensure that the API Server --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow
C-0119 - Ensure that the API Server --authorization-mode argument includes Node
C-0120 - Ensure that the API Server --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC
C-0121 - Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set
C-0122 - Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set
C-0123 - Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set
C-0124 - Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used
C-0125 - Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set
C-0126 - Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set
C-0127 - Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set
C-0128 - Ensure that the API Server --secure-port argument is not set to 0
C-0129 - Ensure that the API Server --profiling argument is set to false
C-0130 - Ensure that the API Server --audit-log-path argument is set
C-0131 - Ensure that the API Server --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate
C-0132 - Ensure that the API Server --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate
C-0133 - Ensure that the API Server --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate
C-0134 - Ensure that the API Server --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate
C-0135 - Ensure that the API Server --service-account-lookup argument is set to true
C-0136 - Ensure that the API Server --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate
C-0137 - Ensure that the API Server --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate
C-0138 - Ensure that the API Server --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate
C-0139 - Ensure that the API Server --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
C-0140 - Ensure that the API Server --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate
C-0141 - Ensure that the API Server --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate
C-0142 - Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured
C-0143 - Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
C-0144 - Ensure that the Controller Manager --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate
C-0145 - Ensure that the Controller Manager --profiling argument is set to false
C-0146 - Ensure that the Controller Manager --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true
C-0147 - Ensure that the Controller Manager --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate
C-0148 - Ensure that the Controller Manager --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
C-0149 - Ensure that the Controller Manager RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true
C-0150 - Ensure that the Controller Manager --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1
C-0151 - Ensure that the Scheduler --profiling argument is set to false
C-0152 - Ensure that the Scheduler --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1
C-0153 - Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate
C-0154 - Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true
C-0155 - Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true
C-0156 - Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate
C-0157 - Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true
C-0158 - Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true
C-0159 - Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd
C-0160 - Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created
C-0161 - Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns
C-0162 - Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0163 - Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root
C-0164 - If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0165 - If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root
C-0166 - Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0167 - Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root
C-0168 - Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0169 - Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root
C-0170 - If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate permissions set to 600 or more restrictive
C-0171 - If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate file ownership is set to root:root
C-0172 - Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false
C-0173 - Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow
C-0174 - Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate
C-0175 - Verify that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0
C-0176 - Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0
C-0177 - Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true
C-0178 - Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true
C-0179 - Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set
C-0180 - Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture
C-0181 - Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate
C-0182 - Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false
C-0183 - Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true
C-0184 - Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
C-0185 - Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required
C-0186 - Minimize access to secrets
C-0187 - Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles
C-0188 - Minimize access to create pods
C-0189 - Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used
C-0190 - Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary
C-0191 - Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster
C-0192 - Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place
C-0193 - Minimize the admission of privileged containers
C-0194 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace
C-0195 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace
C-0196 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace
C-0197 - Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation
C-0198 - Minimize the admission of root containers
C-0199 - Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability
C-0200 - Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities
C-0201 - Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned
C-0202 - Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess Containers
C-0203 - Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes
C-0204 - Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts
C-0205 - Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies
C-0206 - Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined
C-0207 - Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables
C-0208 - Consider external secret storage
C-0209 - Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces
C-0210 - Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions
C-0211 - Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers
C-0212 - The default namespace should not be used
C-0213 - Minimize the admission of privileged containers
C-0214 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace
C-0215 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace
C-0216 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace
C-0217 - Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation
C-0218 - Minimize the admission of root containers
C-0219 - Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities
C-0220 - Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned
C-0221 - Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using Amazon ECR image scanning or a third party provider
C-0222 - Minimize user access to Amazon ECR
C-0223 - Minimize cluster access to read-only for Amazon ECR
C-0225 - Prefer using dedicated EKS Service Accounts
C-0226 - Prefer using a container-optimized OS when possible
C-0227 - Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint
C-0228 - Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled
C-0229 - Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes
C-0230 - Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate
C-0231 - Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates
C-0232 - Manage Kubernetes RBAC users with AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes or Upgrade to AWS CLI v1.16.156
C-0233 - Consider Fargate for running untrusted workloads
C-0234 - Consider external secret storage
C-0235 - Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive
C-0236 - Verify image signature
C-0237 - Check if signature exists
C-0238 - Ensure that the kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive
C-0239 - Prefer using dedicated AKS Service Accounts
C-0240 - Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate
C-0241 - Use Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization.
C-0242 - Hostile multi-tenant workloads
C-0243 - Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using Azure Defender image scanning or a third party provider
C-0244 - Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted
C-0245 - Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates
C-0246 - Avoid use of system:masters group
C-0247 - Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint
C-0248 - Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes
C-0249 - Restrict untrusted workloads
C-0250 - Minimize cluster access to read-only for Azure Container Registry (ACR)
C-0251 - Minimize user access to Azure Container Registry (ACR)
C-0252 - Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled
C-0253 - Deprecated Kubernetes image registry
C-0254 - Enable audit Logs
C-0255 - Workload with secret access
C-0256 - External facing
C-0257 - Workload with PVC access
C-0258 - Workload with ConfigMap access
C-0259 - Workload with credential access
C-0260 - Missing network policy
C-0261 - ServiceAccount token mounted
C-0262 - Anonymous user has RoleBinding
C-0263 - Ingress uses TLS
C-0264 - PersistentVolume without encyption
C-0265 - system:authenticated user has elevated roles
C-0266 - Exposure to internet via Gateway API or Istio Ingress
C-0267 - Workload with cluster takeover roles
C-0268 - Ensure CPU requests are set
C-0269 - Ensure memory requests are set
C-0270 - Ensure CPU limits are set
C-0271 - Ensure memory limits are set
C-0272 - Workload with administrative roles
C-0273 - Outdated Kubernetes version
C-0274 - Verify Authenticated Service
C-0275 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace
C-0276 - Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace
C-0277 - Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers
C-0278 - Minimize access to create persistent volumes
C-0279 - Minimize access to the proxy sub-resource of nodes
C-0280 - Minimize access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequests objects
C-0281 - Minimize access to webhook configuration objects
C-0282 - Minimize access to the service account token creation
C-0283 - Ensure that the API Server --DenyServiceExternalIPs is set
C-0284 - Ensure that the Kubelet is configured to limit pod PIDS
Customize control configurations
Parameter: cpu_limit_max
Parameter: cpu_limit_min
Parameter: cpu_request_max
Parameter: cpu_request_min
Parameter: imageRepositoryAllowList
Parameter: insecureCapabilities
Parameter: k8sRecommendedLabels
Parameter: listOfDangerousArtifcats
Parameter: max_critical_vulnerabilities
Parameter: max_high_vulnerabilities
Parameter: memory_limit_max
Parameter: memory_limit_min
Parameter: memory_request_max
Parameter: memory_request_min
Parameter: publicRegistries
Parameter: recommendedLabels
Parameter: sensitiveInterfaces
Parameter: sensitiveKeyNames
Parameter: sensitiveKeyNamesAllowed
Parameter: sensitiveValues
Parameter: sensitiveValuesAllowed
Parameter: trustedCosignPublicKeys
Parameter: untrustedRegistries
Parameter: servicesNames
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