Rancher RKE2 must prevent nonprivileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-254571	CNTR-R2-001130	SV-254571r894467_rule		Medium

Description
Admission controllers intercept requests to the Kubernetes API before an object is instantiated. Enabling the admissions webhook allows for Kubernetes to apply policies against objects that are to be created, read, updated or deleted. Admissions controllers can be used for: - Prevent pod’s ability to run privileged containers - Prevent pod’s ability to use privileged escalation - Controlling pod’s access to volume types - Controlling pod’s access to host file system - Controlling pod’s usage of host networking objects and configuration Satisfies: SRG-APP-000340-CTR-000770, SRG-APP-000342-CTR-000775

Description

Admission controllers intercept requests to the Kubernetes API before an object is instantiated. Enabling the admissions webhook allows for Kubernetes to apply policies against objects that are to be created, read, updated or deleted. Admissions controllers can be used for: - Prevent pod’s ability to run privileged containers - Prevent pod’s ability to use privileged escalation - Controlling pod’s access to volume types - Controlling pod’s access to host file system - Controlling pod’s usage of host networking objects and configuration Satisfies: SRG-APP-000340-CTR-000770, SRG-APP-000342-CTR-000775

STIG	Date
Rancher Government Solutions RKE2 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-02-27

Details

Check Text ( C-58055r894465_chk )
On the Server Node, run the command: kubectl get podsecuritypolicy For any pod security policies listed, with the exception of system-unrestricted-psp (which is required for core Kubernetes functionality), edit the policy with the command: kubectl edit podsecuritypolicy policyname Where policyname is the name of the policy Review the runAsUser, supplementalGroups and fsGroup sections of the policy. If any of these sections are missing, this is a finding. If the rule within the runAsUser section is not set to "MustRunAsNonRoot" this is a finding. If the ranges within the supplementalGroups section has min set to "0" or min is missing, this is a finding. If the ranges within the fsGroup section has a min set to "0" or the min is missing, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-58055r894465_chk )

On the Server Node, run the command:

kubectl get podsecuritypolicy

For any pod security policies listed, with the exception of system-unrestricted-psp (which is required for core Kubernetes functionality), edit the policy with the command:

kubectl edit podsecuritypolicy policyname
Where policyname is the name of the policy

Review the runAsUser, supplementalGroups and fsGroup sections of the policy.

If any of these sections are missing, this is a finding.

If the rule within the runAsUser section is not set to "MustRunAsNonRoot" this is a finding.

If the ranges within the supplementalGroups section has min set to "0" or min is missing, this is a finding.

If the ranges within the fsGroup section has a min set to "0" or the min is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-58004r894466_fix)
From the Server node, save the following policy to a file called restricted.yml. apiVersion: policy/v1beta1 kind: PodSecurityPolicy metadata: name: restricted annotations: seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/allowedProfileNames: 'docker/default,runtime/default' apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/allowedProfileNames: 'runtime/default' seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/defaultProfileName: 'runtime/default' apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/defaultProfileName: 'runtime/default' spec: privileged: false #Required to prevent escalations to root. allowPrivilegeEscalation: false #This is redundant with non-root + disallow privilege escalation, # but we can provide it for defense in depth. requiredDropCapabilities: - ALL # Allow core volume types. volumes: - 'configMap' - 'emptyDir' - 'projected' - 'secret' - 'downwardAPI' # Assume that persistentVolumes set up by the cluster admin are safe to use. - 'persistentVolumeClaim' hostNetwork: false hostIPC: false hostPID: false runAsUser: # Require the container to run without root privileges. rule: 'MustRunAsNonRoot' seLinux: # This policy assumes the nodes are using AppArmor rather than SELinux. rule: 'RunAsAny' supplementalGroups: rule: 'MustRunAs' ranges: # Forbid adding the root group. - min: 1 max: 65535 fsGroup: rule: 'MustRunAs' ranges: # Forbid adding the root group. - min: 1 max: 65535 readOnlyRootFilesystem: false To implement the policy, run the command: kubectl create -f restricted.yml

Fix Text (F-58004r894466_fix)

From the Server node, save the following policy to a file called restricted.yml.
apiVersion: policy/v1beta1
kind: PodSecurityPolicy
metadata:
name: restricted
annotations:
seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/allowedProfileNames: 'docker/default,runtime/default'
apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/allowedProfileNames: 'runtime/default'
seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/defaultProfileName: 'runtime/default'
apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/defaultProfileName: 'runtime/default'
spec:
privileged: false
#Required to prevent escalations to root.
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
#This is redundant with non-root + disallow privilege escalation,
# but we can provide it for defense in depth.
requiredDropCapabilities:
- ALL
# Allow core volume types.
volumes:
- 'configMap'
- 'emptyDir'
- 'projected'
- 'secret'
- 'downwardAPI'
# Assume that persistentVolumes set up by the cluster admin are safe to use.
- 'persistentVolumeClaim'
hostNetwork: false
hostIPC: false
hostPID: false
runAsUser:
# Require the container to run without root privileges.
rule: 'MustRunAsNonRoot'
seLinux:
# This policy assumes the nodes are using AppArmor rather than SELinux.
rule: 'RunAsAny'
supplementalGroups:
rule: 'MustRunAs'
ranges:
# Forbid adding the root group.
- min: 1
max: 65535
fsGroup:
rule: 'MustRunAs'
ranges:
# Forbid adding the root group.
- min: 1
max: 65535
readOnlyRootFilesystem: false

To implement the policy, run the command:

kubectl create -f restricted.yml