release: prepare v0.8.0 (#1639)

Signed-off-by: chenk <hen.keinan@gmail.com>

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

@@ -3,15 +3,35 @@ name: Bug report
 about: Tell us about a problem you are experiencing
 ---
 
-**What steps did you take and what happened:**
+**Overview**
 
-[A clear and concise description of what the bug is, and what commands you ran. If possible please supply logs generated with the `-v 3` parameter.)
+[A clear and concise description of what the bug is] 
+
+**How did you run kube-bench?**
+
+[Please specify exactly how you ran kube-bench, including details of command parameters and/or job file that you used to run it]
+
+**What happened?**
+
+[Please include output from the report to illustrate the problem. If possible please supply logs generated with the `-v 3` parameter.]
 
 **What did you expect to happen:**
 
+[Please describe what you expected to happen differently.]
+
 **Environment** 
 
-[Please specify the version of kube-bench and Kubernetes]
+[What is your version of kube-bench? (run `kube-bench version`)]
+
+[What is your version of Kubernetes? (run `kubectl version` or `oc version` on OpenShift.)]
+
+**Running processes**
+
+[Please include the output from running `ps -eaf | grep kube` on the affected node. This will allow us to check what Kubernetes processes are running, and how this compares to what kube-bench detected.]
+
+**Configuration files**
+
+[If kube-bench is reporting an issue related to the settings defined in a config file, please attach the file, or include an extract showing the settings that are being detected incorrectly.]
 
 **Anything else you would like to add:**
 

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: gomod
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+  - package-ecosystem: docker
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+---
+name: Build
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths-ignore:
+      - "*.md"
+      - "LICENSE"
+      - "NOTICE"
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - "*.md"
+      - "LICENSE"
+      - "NOTICE"
+env:
+  GO_VERSION: "1.21"
+  KIND_VERSION: "v0.11.1"
+  KIND_IMAGE: "kindest/node:v1.21.1@sha256:69860bda5563ac81e3c0057d654b5253219618a22ec3a346306239bba8cfa1a6"
+
+jobs:
+  lint:
+    name: Lint
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: yaml-lint
+        uses: ibiqlik/action-yamllint@v3
+      - name: Setup golangci-lint
+        uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v4
+        with:
+          version: v1.57.2
+          args: --verbose
+  unit:
+    name: Unit tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: make tests
+      - name: Upload code coverage
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+        with:
+          file: ./coverage.txt
+  e2e:
+    name: E2e tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Kubernetes cluster (KIND)
+        uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.5.0
+        with:
+          version: ${{ env.KIND_VERSION }}
+          image: ${{ env.KIND_IMAGE }}
+          name: kube-bench
+      - name: Test connection to Kubernetes cluster
+        run: |
+          kubectl cluster-info
+          kubectl describe node
+      - name: Run integration tests
+        run: |
+          make integration-test
+      - name: Compare output with expected output
+        uses: GuillaumeFalourd/diff-action@v1
+        with:
+          first_file_path: ./test.data
+          second_file_path: integration/testdata/Expected_output.data
+          expected_result: PASSED
+  release:
+    name: Release snapshot
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [e2e, unit]
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Dry-run release snapshot
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v6
+        with:
+          distribution: goreleaser
+          version: v1.7.0
+          args: release --snapshot --skip-publish --rm-dist

.github/workflows/mkdocs-deploy.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+# This is a manually triggered workflow to build and publish the MkDocs from the
+# main branch to GitHub pages at https://aquasecurity.github.io/kube-bench.
+name: Deploy documentation
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: Version to be deployed
+        required: true
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    name: Deploy documentation
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout main
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: true
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.x
+      - run: |
+          pip install git+https://${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material-insiders.git
+          pip install mike
+          pip install mkdocs-macros-plugin
+        env:
+          # Note: It is not the same as ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} !
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MKDOCS_AQUA_BOT }}
+      - run: |
+          git config user.name "aqua-bot"
+          git config user.email "aqua-bot@users.noreply.github.com"
+      - run: |
+          mike deploy --push --update-aliases ${{ github.event.inputs.version }} latest

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+---
+name: Publish
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "v*"
+env:
+  ALIAS: aquasecurity
+  DOCKERHUB_ALIAS: aquasec
+  REP: kube-bench
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    name: Publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Check Out Repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        id: buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+      - name: Cache Docker layers
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: /tmp/.buildx-cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-buildxarch-${{ github.sha }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-buildxarch-
+      - name: Login to Docker Hub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USER }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Login to ECR
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          registry: public.ecr.aws
+          username: ${{ secrets.ECR_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.ECR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+      - name: Get version
+        id: get_version
+        uses: crazy-max/ghaction-docker-meta@v5
+        with:
+          images: ${{ env.REP }}
+          tag-semver: |
+            {{version}}
+      - name: Extract variables from makefile (kubectl)
+        id: extract_vars
+        run: |
+          echo "KUBECTL_VERSION=$(grep -oP '^KUBECTL_VERSION\s*\?=\s*\K.*' makefile)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Build and push - Docker/ECR
+        id: docker_build
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
+        with:
+          context: .
+          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/ppc64le,linux/s390x
+          builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
+          push: true
+          build-args: |
+            KUBEBENCH_VERSION=${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
+            KUBECTL_VERSION=${{ env.KUBECTL_VERSION }}
+          tags: |
+            ${{ env.DOCKERHUB_ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
+            public.ecr.aws/${{ env.ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
+            ${{ env.DOCKERHUB_ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:latest
+            public.ecr.aws/${{ env.ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:latest
+          cache-from: type=local,src=/tmp/.buildx-cache/release
+          cache-to: type=local,mode=max,dest=/tmp/.buildx-cache/release
+
+      - name: Build and push ubi image - Docker/ECR
+        id: docker_build_ubi
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
+        with:
+          context: .
+          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/ppc64le,linux/s390x
+          builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
+          push: true
+          file: Dockerfile.ubi
+          build-args: |
+            KUBEBENCH_VERSION=${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
+            KUBECTL_VERSION=${{ env.KUBECTL_VERSION }}
+          tags: |
+            ${{ env.DOCKERHUB_ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}-ubi
+            public.ecr.aws/${{ env.ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}-ubi
+          cache-from: type=local,src=/tmp/.buildx-cache/release
+          cache-to: type=local,mode=max,dest=/tmp/.buildx-cache/release
+      - name: Image digest
+        run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build.outputs.digest }}
+
+      - name: Build and push fips ubi image - Docker/ECR
+        id: docker_build_fips_ubi
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
+        with:
+          context: .
+          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/ppc64le,linux/s390x
+          builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
+          push: true
+          file: Dockerfile.fips.ubi
+          build-args: |
+            KUBEBENCH_VERSION=${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
+            KUBECTL_VERSION=${{ env.KUBECTL_VERSION }}
+          tags: |
+            ${{ env.DOCKERHUB_ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}-ubi-fips
+            public.ecr.aws/${{ env.ALIAS }}/${{ env.REP }}:${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}-ubi-fips
+          cache-from: type=local,src=/tmp/.buildx-cache/release
+          cache-to: type=local,mode=max,dest=/tmp/.buildx-cache/release
+      - name: Image digest
+        run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build.outputs.digest }}

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+name: Release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "v*"
+env:
+  GO_VERSION: "1.21"
+  KIND_VERSION: "v0.11.1"
+  KIND_IMAGE: "kindest/node:v1.21.1@sha256:69860bda5563ac81e3c0057d654b5253219618a22ec3a346306239bba8cfa1a6"
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: make tests
+      - name: Setup Kubernetes cluster (KIND)
+        uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.5.0
+        with:
+          version: ${{ env.KIND_VERSION }}
+          image: ${{ env.KIND_IMAGE }}
+          name: kube-bench
+      - name: Test connection to Kubernetes cluster
+        run: |
+          kubectl cluster-info
+          kubectl describe node
+      - name: Run integration tests
+        run: |
+          make integration-test
+      - name: Compare output with expected output
+        uses: GuillaumeFalourd/diff-action@v1
+        with:
+          first_file_path: ./test.data
+          second_file_path: integration/testdata/Expected_output.data
+          expected_result: PASSED
+      - name: Release
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v6
+        with:
+          distribution: goreleaser
+          version: v1.7.0
+          args: release --rm-dist
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.gitignore

@@ -11,3 +11,6 @@ coverage.txt
 # Directory junk file
 .DS_Store
 thumbs.db
+/kubeconfig.kube-bench
+/test.data
+*.iml

.golangci.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+linters:
+  disable-all: true
+  enable:
+    - deadcode
+    - gocyclo
+    - gofmt
+    - goimports
+    - govet
+    - misspell
+    - typecheck
+    - varcheck

.goreleaser.yml

@@ -1,20 +1,32 @@
 ---
+project_name: kube-bench
 env:
   - GO111MODULE=on
+  - CGO_ENABLED=0
   - KUBEBENCH_CFG=/etc/kube-bench/cfg
 builds:
   - main: main.go
     binary: kube-bench
+    tags:
+      - osusergo
+      - netgo
+      - static_build
     goos:
       - linux
+      - darwin
     goarch:
       - amd64
       - arm
       - arm64
+      - ppc64le
+      - s390x
     goarm:
       - 6
       - 7
     ldflags:
+      - "-s"
+      - "-w"
+      - "-extldflags '-static'"
       - "-X github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/cmd.KubeBenchVersion={{.Version}}"
       - "-X github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/cmd.cfgDir={{.Env.KUBEBENCH_CFG}}"
 # Archive customization
@@ -24,14 +36,27 @@ archives:
     name_template: '{{ .Binary }}_{{.Version}}_{{ .Os }}_{{ .Arch }}{{ if .Arm }}v{{.Arm }}{{ end }}'
     files:
       - "cfg/**/*"
+      - "cfg/config.yaml"
 nfpms:
   -
     vendor: Aqua Security
     description: "The Kubernetes Bench for Security is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices"
+    maintainer: Yoav Rotem <yoav.rotem@aquasec.com>
     license: Apache-2.0
     homepage: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
-    files:
-      "cfg/**/*": "/etc/kube-bench/cfg"
+    file_name_template: '{{ .Binary }}_{{.Version}}_{{ .Os }}_{{ .Arch }}{{ if .Arm }}v{{.Arm }}{{ end }}'
+    contents:
+      - src: "cfg/**/*"
+        dst: "/etc/kube-bench/cfg"
+      - src: "cfg/config.yaml"
+        dst: "/etc/kube-bench/cfg/config.yaml"
     formats:
       - deb
       - rpm
+changelog:
+  sort: asc
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+      - '^docs'
+      - '^test'
+      - '^release'

.travis.yml

@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
----
-language: go
-
-services:
-  - docker
-
-notifications:
-  email: false
-
-before_install:
-  - sudo apt-get -qq update
-  - sudo apt-get install -y rpm
-  - pip install --user yamllint==1.18.0
-  - gem install --no-document fpm
-  - go get -t -v ./...
-  - |
-    if [ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" = "master" -a "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" = "false" ]; then
-      echo "$DOCKER_PASSWORD" | docker login --username "$DOCKER_USERNAME" --password-stdin
-    fi
-
-script:
-  - yamllint -c ./.yamllint.yaml .
-
-  # Run unit and integration tests
-  - make tests
-  - make integration-tests
-
-  # Build a local container image to test that the install sub-command works
-  - IMAGE_NAME=kube-bench make build-docker
-  - docker run -v `pwd`:/host kube-bench install
-  - test -d cfg
-  - test -f kube-bench
-  # Build and push the multi-arch Docker image
-  - |
-    if [ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" = "master" -a "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" = "false" ]; then
-      make docker
-    fi
-
-after_success:
-  - bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash)
-deploy:
-  - provider: script
-    skip_cleanup: true
-    script: curl -sL https://git.io/goreleaser | bash
-    on:
-      tags: true
-      condition: "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux"
-
-env:
-  global:
-    secure: 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
-  matrix:
-    - GO111MODULE=on

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Thank you for taking an interest in contributing to kube-bench !
 
-## Issues
+## Contributing, bug reporting, openning issues and starting discussions
+
+### Issues
 
 - Feel free to open an issue for any reason as long as you make it clear if the issue is about a bug/feature/question/comment.
 - Please spend some time giving due diligence to the issue tracker. Your issue might be a duplicate. If it is, please add your comment to the existing issue.
@@ -9,16 +11,70 @@ Thank you for taking an interest in contributing to kube-bench !
 - For questions and bug reports, please include the following information:
   - version of kube-bench you are running (from kube-bench version) along with the command line options you are using.
   - version of Kubernetes you are running (from kubectl version or oc version for Openshift).
-  - Verbose log output, by setting the `-v 10` command line option.
+  - Verbose log output, by setting the `-v 3` command line option.
 
-## Pull Requests
+### Bugs
 
-1. Every Pull Request should have an associated Issue, unless you are fixing a trivial documentation issue.
-1. We will not accept changes to LICENSE, NOTICE or CONTRIBUTING from outside the Aqua Security team. Please raise an Issue if you believe there is a problem with any of these files. 
-1. Your PR is more likely to be accepted if it focuses on just one change.
-1. Describe what the PR does. There's no convention enforced, but please try to be concise and descriptive. Treat the PR description as a commit message. Titles that start with "fix"/"add"/"improve"/"remove" are good examples.
-1. Please add the associated Issue in the PR description.
-1. There's no need to add or tag reviewers.
-1. If a reviewer commented on your code or asked for changes, please remember to mark the discussion as resolved after you address it. PRs with unresolved issues should not be merged (even if the comment is unclear or requires no action from your side).
-1. Please include a comment with the results before and after your change.
-1. Your PR is more likely to be accepted if it includes tests (We have not historically been very strict about tests, but we would like to improve this!).
+If you think you have found a bug please follow the instructions below.
+
+- Open a [new bug](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.md) if a duplicate doesn't already exist.
+- Make sure to give as much information as possible in the following questions
+  - Overview
+  - How did you run kube-bench?
+  - What happened?
+  - What did you expect to happen
+  - Environment
+  - Running processes
+  - Configuration files
+  - Anything else you would like to add
+- Set `-v 3` command line option and save the log output. Please paste this into your issue.
+
+
+### Features
+
+We also use the GitHub discussions to track feature requests. If you have an idea to make kube-bench even more awesome follow the steps below.
+
+- Open a [new discussion](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/discussions/new?category_id=19113743) if a duplicate doesn't already exist.
+- Remember users might be searching for your discussion in the future, so please give it a meaningful title to helps others.
+- Clearly define the use case, using concrete examples. For example, I type `this` and kube-bench does `that`.
+- If you would like to include a technical design for your feature please feel free to do so.
+
+### Questions
+
+We also use the GitHub discussions to Q&A.
+
+- Open a [new discussion](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/discussions/new) if a duplicate doesn't already exist.
+- Remember users might be searching for your discussion in the future, so please give it a meaningful title to helps others.
+
+
+### Pull Requests
+
+We welcome pull requests!
+- Every Pull Request should have an associated Issue, unless you are fixing a trivial documentation issue.
+- We will not accept changes to LICENSE, NOTICE or CONTRIBUTING from outside the Aqua Security team. Please raise an Issue if you believe there is a problem with any of these files. 
+- Your PR is more likely to be accepted if it focuses on just one change.
+- Describe what the PR does. There's no convention enforced, but please try to be concise and descriptive. Treat the PR description as a commit message. Titles that start with "fix"/"add"/"improve"/"remove" are good examples.
+- Please add the associated Issue in the PR description.
+- Please include a comment with the results before and after your change.
+- There's no need to add or tag reviewers.
+- If a reviewer commented on your code or asked for changes, please remember to mark the discussion as resolved after you address it. PRs with unresolved issues should not be merged (even if the comment is unclear or requires no action from your side).
+- Please include a comment with the results before and after your change.
+- Your PR is more likely to be accepted if it includes tests (We have not historically been very strict about tests, but we would like to improve this!).
+- You're welcome to submit a draft PR if you would like early feedback on an idea or an approach.
+- Happy coding!
+
+## Testing locally with kind
+
+Our makefile contains targets to test your current version of kube-bench inside a [Kind](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/) cluster. This can be very handy if you don't want to run a real Kubernetes cluster for development purposes.
+
+First, you'll need to create the cluster using `make kind-test-cluster` this will create a new cluster if it cannot be found on your machine. By default, the cluster is named `kube-bench` but you can change the name by using the environment variable `KIND_PROFILE`.
+
+*If kind cannot be found on your system the target will try to install it using `go get`*
+
+Next, you'll have to build the kube-bench docker image using `make build-docker`, then we will be able to push the docker image to the cluster using `make kind-push`.
+
+Finally, we can use the `make kind-run` target to run the current version of kube-bench in the cluster and follow the logs of pods created. (Ctrl+C to exit)
+
+Every time you want to test a change, you'll need to rebuild the docker image and push it to cluster before running it again. ( `make build-docker kind-push kind-run` )
+
+To run the STIG tests locally execute the following: `make build-docker kind-push kind-run-stig`

Dockerfile

@@ -1,27 +1,46 @@
-FROM golang:1.15 AS build
+FROM golang:1.22.2 AS build
 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/
+COPY makefile makefile
 COPY go.mod go.sum ./
 COPY main.go .
 COPY check/ check/
 COPY cmd/ cmd/
+COPY internal/ internal/
 ARG KUBEBENCH_VERSION
-ARG GOOS=linux
-ARG GOARCH=amd64
-RUN GO111MODULE=on CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=$GOOS GOARCH=$GOARCH go build -a -ldflags "-X github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/cmd.KubeBenchVersion=${KUBEBENCH_VERSION} -w" -o /go/bin/kube-bench
+RUN make build && cp kube-bench /go/bin/kube-bench
 
-FROM alpine:3.12 AS run
+# Add kubectl to run policies checks
+ARG KUBECTL_VERSION TARGETARCH
+RUN wget -O /usr/local/bin/kubectl "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl"
+RUN wget -O kubectl.sha256 "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl.sha256"
+# Verify kubectl sha256sum
+RUN /bin/bash -c 'echo "$(<kubectl.sha256)  /usr/local/bin/kubectl" | sha256sum -c -'
+RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+
+FROM alpine:3.20.0 AS run
 WORKDIR /opt/kube-bench/
 # add GNU ps for -C, -o cmd, and --no-headers support
 # https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/issues/109
 RUN apk --no-cache add procps
 
+# Upgrading apk-tools to remediate CVE-2021-36159 - https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-ALPINE314-APKTOOLS-1533752
+# https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/issues/943
+RUN apk --no-cache upgrade apk-tools
+
 # Openssl is used by OpenShift tests
 # https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/issues/535
-RUN apk --no-cache add openssl
+# Ensuring that we update/upgrade before installing openssl, to mitigate CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712
+RUN apk update && apk upgrade && apk --no-cache add openssl
+
+# Add glibc for running oc command 
+RUN wget -q -O /etc/apk/keys/sgerrand.rsa.pub https://alpine-pkgs.sgerrand.com/sgerrand.rsa.pub
+RUN apk add gcompat
+RUN apk add jq
 
 ENV PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mount-from-host/bin
 
 COPY --from=build /go/bin/kube-bench /usr/local/bin/kube-bench
+COPY --from=build /usr/local/bin/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
 COPY entrypoint.sh .
 COPY cfg/ cfg/
 ENTRYPOINT ["./entrypoint.sh"]

Dockerfile.fips.ubi

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+FROM golang:1.22.2 AS build
+WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/
+COPY makefile makefile
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+COPY main.go .
+COPY check/ check/
+COPY cmd/ cmd/
+COPY internal/ internal/
+ARG KUBEBENCH_VERSION
+RUN make build-fips && cp kube-bench /go/bin/kube-bench
+
+# Add kubectl to run policies checks
+ARG KUBECTL_VERSION TARGETARCH
+RUN wget -O /usr/local/bin/kubectl "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl"
+RUN wget -O kubectl.sha256 "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl.sha256"
+# Verify kubectl sha256sum
+RUN /bin/bash -c 'echo "$(<kubectl.sha256)  /usr/local/bin/kubectl" | sha256sum -c -'
+RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+
+
+# ubi8-minimal base image for build with ubi standards
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal as run
+
+RUN microdnf install -y yum findutils openssl \
+  && yum -y update-minimal --security --sec-severity=Moderate --sec-severity=Important --sec-severity=Critical \
+  && yum update -y \
+  && yum install -y glibc \
+  && yum update -y glibc \
+  && yum install -y procps \
+  && yum update -y procps \
+  && yum install jq -y \
+  && yum clean all \
+  && microdnf remove yum || rpm -e -v yum \
+  && microdnf clean all
+
+WORKDIR /opt/kube-bench/
+
+ENV PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mount-from-host/bin 
+
+COPY LICENSE /licenses/LICENSE
+COPY --from=build /go/bin/kube-bench /usr/local/bin/kube-bench
+COPY --from=build /usr/local/bin/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+COPY entrypoint.sh .
+COPY cfg/ cfg/
+ENTRYPOINT ["./entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["install"]
+
+
+# Build-time metadata as defined at http://label-schema.org
+ARG BUILD_DATE
+ARG VCS_REF
+LABEL org.label-schema.build-date=$BUILD_DATE \
+    org.label-schema.name="kube-bench" \
+    org.label-schema.description="Run the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark tests" \
+    org.label-schema.url="https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench" \
+    org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$VCS_REF \
+    org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench" \
+    org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0"

Dockerfile.ubi

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+FROM golang:1.22.2 AS build
+WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/
+COPY makefile makefile
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+COPY main.go .
+COPY check/ check/
+COPY cmd/ cmd/
+COPY internal/ internal/
+ARG KUBEBENCH_VERSION
+RUN make build && cp kube-bench /go/bin/kube-bench
+
+# Add kubectl to run policies checks
+ARG KUBECTL_VERSION TARGETARCH
+RUN wget -O /usr/local/bin/kubectl "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl"
+RUN wget -O kubectl.sha256 "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl.sha256"
+# Verify kubectl sha256sum
+RUN /bin/bash -c 'echo "$(<kubectl.sha256)  /usr/local/bin/kubectl" | sha256sum -c -'
+RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+
+
+# ubi8-minimal base image for build with ubi standards
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal as run
+
+RUN microdnf install -y yum findutils openssl \
+  && yum -y update-minimal --security --sec-severity=Moderate --sec-severity=Important --sec-severity=Critical \
+  && yum update -y \
+  && yum install -y glibc \
+  && yum update -y glibc \
+  && yum install -y procps \
+  && yum update -y procps \
+  && yum install jq -y \
+  && yum clean all \
+  && microdnf remove yum || rpm -e -v yum \
+  && microdnf clean all
+
+WORKDIR /opt/kube-bench/
+
+ENV PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mount-from-host/bin 
+
+COPY LICENSE /licenses/LICENSE
+COPY --from=build /go/bin/kube-bench /usr/local/bin/kube-bench
+COPY --from=build /usr/local/bin/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+COPY entrypoint.sh .
+COPY cfg/ cfg/
+ENTRYPOINT ["./entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["install"]
+
+
+# Build-time metadata as defined at http://label-schema.org
+ARG BUILD_DATE
+ARG VCS_REF
+LABEL org.label-schema.build-date=$BUILD_DATE \
+    org.label-schema.name="kube-bench" \
+    org.label-schema.description="Run the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark tests" \
+    org.label-schema.url="https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench" \
+    org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$VCS_REF \
+    org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench" \
+    org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0"

README.md

@@ -1,163 +1,40 @@
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/aquasecurity/kube-bench.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/aquasecurity/kube-bench)
-[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/blob/master/LICENSE)
-[![Docker image](https://images.microbadger.com/badges/image/aquasec/kube-bench.svg)](https://microbadger.com/images/aquasec/kube-bench "Get your own image badge on microbadger.com")
-[![Source commit](https://images.microbadger.com/badges/commit/aquasec/kube-bench.svg)](https://microbadger.com/images/aquasec/kube-bench)
+[![GitHub Release][release-img]][release]
+[![Downloads][download]][release]
+[![Docker Pulls][docker-pull]][docker]
+[![Go Report Card][report-card-img]][report-card]
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/workflows/Build/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/actions)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/blob/main/LICENSE)
 [![Coverage Status][cov-img]][cov]
 
-[cov-img]: https://codecov.io/github/aquasecurity/kube-bench/branch/master/graph/badge.svg
+[download]: https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/aquasecurity/kube-bench/total?logo=github
+[release-img]: https://img.shields.io/github/release/aquasecurity/kube-bench.svg?logo=github
+[release]: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases
+[docker-pull]: https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/aquasec/kube-bench?logo=docker&label=docker%20pulls%20%2F%20kube-bench
+[docker]: https://hub.docker.com/r/aquasec/kube-bench
+[cov-img]: https://codecov.io/github/aquasecurity/kube-bench/branch/main/graph/badge.svg
 [cov]: https://codecov.io/github/aquasecurity/kube-bench
-<img src="images/kube-bench.png" width="200" alt="kube-bench logo">
+[report-card-img]: https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
+[report-card]: https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
 
-kube-bench is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/).
+<img src="docs/images/kube-bench.png" width="200" alt="kube-bench logo">
+
+kube-bench is a tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/).
 
 Tests are configured with YAML files, making this tool easy to update as test specifications evolve.
 
-### Please Note
+![Kubernetes Bench for Security](/docs/images/output.png "Kubernetes Bench for Security")
 
-1. kube-bench implements the [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/) as closely as possible. Please raise issues here if kube-bench is not correctly implementing the test as described in the Benchmark. To report issues in the Benchmark itself (for example, tests that you believe are inappropriate), please join the [CIS community](https://cisecurity.org).
+## CIS Scanning as part of Trivy and the Trivy Operator
 
-1. There is not a one-to-one mapping between releases of Kubernetes and releases of the CIS benchmark. See [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark support](#cis-kubernetes-benchmark-support) to see which releases of Kubernetes are covered by different releases of the benchmark.
+[Trivy](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy), the all in one cloud native security scanner, can be deployed as a [Kubernetes Operator](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator) inside a cluster.
+Both, the [Trivy CLI](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy), and the [Trivy Operator](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator) support CIS Kubernetes Benchmark scanning among several other features.
 
-1. It is impossible to inspect the master nodes of managed clusters, e.g. GKE, EKS and AKS, using kube-bench as one does not have access to such nodes, although it is still possible to use kube-bench to check worker node configuration in these environments.
-
-
-![Kubernetes Bench for Security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/master/images/output.png "Kubernetes Bench for Security")
-
-Table of Contents
-=================
-
-  - [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark support](#cis-kubernetes-benchmark-support)
-  - [Installation](#installation)
-  - [Running kube-bench](#running-kube-bench)
-    - [Running inside a container](#running-inside-a-container)
-    - [Running in a Kubernetes cluster](#running-in-a-kubernetes-cluster)
-    - [Running in an AKS cluster](#running-in-an-aks-cluster)
-    - [Running in an EKS cluster](#running-in-an-eks-cluster)
-    - [Running on OpenShift](#running-on-openshift)
-    - [Running in an GKE cluster](#running-in-a-gke-cluster)
-    - [Installing from a container](#installing-from-a-container)
-    - [Installing from sources](#installing-from-sources)
-  - [Output](#output)
-  - [Configuration](#configuration)
-  - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
-  - [Test config YAML representation](#test-config-yaml-representation)
-    - [Omitting checks](#omitting-checks)
-  - [Roadmap](#roadmap)
-  - [Testing locally with kind](#testing-locally-with-kind)
-  - [Contributing](#contributing)
-    - [Bugs](#bugs)
-    - [Features](#features)
-    - [Pull Requests](#pull-requests)
-
-
-## CIS Kubernetes Benchmark support
-
-kube-bench supports the tests for Kubernetes as defined in the [CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/).
-
-| CIS Kubernetes Benchmark | kube-bench config | Kubernetes versions |
-|---|---|---|
-| [1.5.1](https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/4892) | cis-1.5 | 1.15- |
-| [1.6.0](https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/4834) | cis-1.6 | 1.16- |
-| [GKE 1.0.0](https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/4536) | gke-1.0 | GKE |
-| [EKS 1.0.0](https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/5190) | eks-1.0 | EKS |
-| Red Hat OpenShift hardening guide | rh-0.7 | OCP 3.10-3.11 |
-
-By default, kube-bench will determine the test set to run based on the Kubernetes version running on the machine, but please note that kube-bench does not automatically detect OpenShift and GKE - see the section below on [Running kube-bench](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench#running-kube-bench).
-
-## Installation
-
-You can choose to
-* run kube-bench from inside a container (sharing PID namespace with the host)
-* run a container that installs kube-bench on the host, and then run kube-bench directly on the host
-* install the latest binaries from the [Releases page](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases), though please note that you also need to download the config and test files from the `cfg` directory
-* compile it from source.
-
-## Running kube-bench
-
-If you run kube-bench directly from the command line you may need to be root / sudo to have access to all the config files.
-
-kube-bench automatically selects which `controls` to use based on the detected
-node type and the version of Kubernetes a cluster is running. This behavior
-can be overridden by specifying the `master` or `node` subcommand and the
-`--version` flag on the command line.
-
-
-The Kubernetes version can also be set with the `KUBE_BENCH_VERSION` environment variable.
-The value of `--version` takes precedence over the value of `KUBE_BENCH_VERSION`.
-
-For example, run kube-bench against a master with version auto-detection:
-
-```
-kube-bench master
-```
-
-Or run kube-bench against a worker node using the tests for Kubernetes version 1.13:
-
-```
-kube-bench node --version 1.13
-```
-
-`kube-bench` will map the `--version` to the corresponding CIS Benchmark version as indicated by the mapping table above. For example, if you specify `--version 1.15`, this is mapped to CIS Benchmark version `cis-1.15`.
-
-Alternatively, you can specify `--benchmark` to run a specific CIS Benchmark version:
-
-```
-kube-bench node --benchmark cis-1.5
-```
-
-If you want to target specific CIS Benchmark `target` (i.e master, node, etcd, etc...)
-you can use the `run --targets` subcommand.
-```
-kube-bench --benchmark cis-1.5 run --targets master,node
-```
-or
-```
-kube-bench --benchmark cis-1.5 run --targets master,node,etcd,policies
-```
-
-The following table shows the valid targets based on the CIS Benchmark version.
-| CIS Benchmark | Targets |
-|---|---|
-| cis-1.5| master, controlplane, node, etcd, policies |
-| cis-1.6| master, controlplane, node, etcd, policies |
-| gke-1.0| master, controlplane, node, etcd, policies, managedservices |
-| eks-1.0| controlplane, node, policies, managedservices |
-
-If no targets are specified, `kube-bench` will determine the appropriate targets based on the CIS Benchmark version.
-
-`controls` for the various versions of CIS Benchmark can be found in directories
-with same name as the CIS Benchmark versions under `cfg/`, for example `cfg/cis-1.5`.
-
-**Note:**  **`It is an error to specify both --version and --benchmark flags together`**
-
-### Running inside a container
-
-You can avoid installing kube-bench on the host by running it inside a container using the host PID namespace and mounting the `/etc` and `/var` directories where the configuration and other files are located on the host so that kube-bench can check their existence and permissions.
-
-```
-docker run --pid=host -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro -t aquasec/kube-bench:latest [master|node] --version 1.13
-```
-
-> Note: the tests require either the kubelet or kubectl binary in the path in order to auto-detect the Kubernetes version. You can pass `-v $(which kubectl):/usr/local/mount-from-host/bin/kubectl` to resolve this. You will also need to pass in kubeconfig credentials. For example:
-
-```
-docker run --pid=host -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro -v $(which kubectl):/usr/local/mount-from-host/bin/kubectl -v ~/.kube:/.kube -e KUBECONFIG=/.kube/config -t aquasec/kube-bench:latest [master|node]
-```
-
-You can use your own configs by mounting them over the default ones in `/opt/kube-bench/cfg/`
-
-```
-docker run --pid=host -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro -t -v path/to/my-config.yaml:/opt/kube-bench/cfg/config.yam -v $(which kubectl):/usr/local/mount-from-host/bin/kubectl -v ~/.kube:/.kube -e KUBECONFIG=/.kube/config aquasec/kube-bench:latest [master|node]
-```
-
-### Running in a Kubernetes cluster
+## Quick start
 
+There are multiple ways to run kube-bench.
 You can run kube-bench inside a pod, but it will need access to the host's PID namespace in order to check the running processes, as well as access to some directories on the host where config files and other files are stored.
 
-Master nodes are automatically detected by kube-bench and will run master checks when possible.
-The detection is done by verifying that mandatory components for master, as defined in the config files, are running (see [Configuration](#configuration)).
-
-The supplied `job.yaml` file can be applied to run the tests as a job. For example:
+The supplied `job.yaml` [file](job.yaml) can be applied to run the tests as a job. For example:
 
 ```bash
 $ kubectl apply -f job.yaml
@@ -178,206 +55,22 @@ kubectl logs kube-bench-j76s9
 [INFO] 1.1 API Server
 ...
 ```
+For more information and different ways to run kube-bench see [documentation](docs/running.md)
+### Please Note
 
-You can still force to run specific master or node checks using respectively `job-master.yaml` and `job-node.yaml`.
+1. kube-bench implements the [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/) as closely as possible. Please raise issues here if kube-bench is not correctly implementing the test as described in the Benchmark. To report issues in the Benchmark itself (for example, tests that you believe are inappropriate), please join the [CIS community](https://cisecurity.org).
 
-To run the tests on the master node, the pod needs to be scheduled on that node. This involves setting a nodeSelector and tolerations in the pod spec.
-
-The default labels applied to master nodes has changed since Kubernetes 1.11, so if you are using an older version you may need to modify the nodeSelector and tolerations to run the job on the master node.
+1. There is not a one-to-one mapping between releases of Kubernetes and releases of the CIS benchmark. See [CIS Kubernetes Benchmark support](docs/platforms.md#cis-kubernetes-benchmark-support) to see which releases of Kubernetes are covered by different releases of the benchmark.
 
 
-### Running in an AKS cluster
+By default, kube-bench will determine the test set to run based on the Kubernetes version running on the machine.
+- see the following documentation on [Running kube-bench](docs/running.md#running-kube-bench) for more details.
 
-1. Create an AKS cluster(e.g. 1.13.7) with RBAC enabled, otherwise there would be 4 failures
 
-1. Use the [kubectl-enter plugin] (https://github.com/kvaps/kubectl-enter) to shell into a node
-`
-kubectl-enter {node-name}
-`
-or ssh to one agent node
-could open nsg 22 port and assign a public ip for one agent node (only for testing purpose)
-
-1. Run CIS benchmark to view results:
-```
-docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/host aquasec/kube-bench:latest install
-./kube-bench node
-```
-kube-bench cannot be run on AKS master nodes
-
-### Running in an EKS cluster
-
-There is a `job-eks.yaml` file for running the kube-bench node checks on an EKS cluster. The significant difference on EKS is that it's not possible to schedule jobs onto the master node, so master checks can't be performed
-
-1. To create an EKS Cluster refer to [Getting Started with Amazon EKS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html) in the *Amazon EKS User Guide*
-  - Information on configuring `eksctl`, `kubectl` and the AWS CLI is within
-2. Create an [Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/what-is-ecr.html) repository to host the kube-bench container image
-```
-aws ecr create-repository --repository-name k8s/kube-bench --image-tag-mutability MUTABLE
-```
-3. Download, build and push the kube-bench container image to your ECR repo
-```
-git clone https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench.git
-cd kube-bench
-aws ecr get-login-password --region <AWS_REGION> | docker login --username <AWS_USERNAME> --password-stdin <AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com
-docker build -t k8s/kube-bench .
-docker tag k8s/kube-bench:latest <AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest
-docker push <AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest
-```
-4. Copy the URI of your pushed image, the URI format is like this: `<AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest`
-5. Replace the `image` value in `job-eks.yaml` with the URI from Step 4
-6. Run the kube-bench job on a Pod in your Cluster: `kubectl apply -f job-eks.yaml`
-7. Find the Pod that was created, it *should* be in the `default` namespace: `kubectl get pods --all-namespaces`
-8. Retrieve the value of this Pod and output the report, note the Pod name will vary: `kubectl logs kube-bench-<value>`
-  - You can save the report for later reference: `kubectl logs kube-bench-<value> > kube-bench-report.txt`
-
-### Running on OpenShift
-
-| OpenShift Hardening Guide | kube-bench config |
-|---|---|
-| ocp-3.10| rh-0.7 |
-| ocp-3.11| rh-0.7 |
-| ocp-4.* | Not supported |
-
-kube-bench includes a set of test files for Red Hat's OpenShift hardening guide for OCP 3.10 and 3.11. To run this you will need to specify `--benchmark rh-07`, or `--version ocp-3.10` or `--version ocp-3.11`
-
-when you run the `kube-bench` command (either directly or through YAML).
-
-There is work in progress on a [CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Benchmark](https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/5248) which we believe should cover OCP 4.* and we intend to add support in kube-bench when it's published. 
-
-### Running in a GKE cluster
-
-| CIS Benchmark | Targets |
-|---|---|
-| gke-1.0| master, controlplane, node, etcd, policies, managedservices |
-
-kube-bench includes benchmarks for GKE. To run this you will need to specify `--benchmark gke-1.0` when you run the `kube-bench` command.
-
-To run the benchmark as a job in your GKE cluster apply the included `job-gke.yaml`.
-
-```
-kubectl apply -f job-gke.yaml
-```
-
-### Installing from a container
-
-This command copies the kube-bench binary and configuration files to your host from the Docker container:
-** binaries compiled for linux-x86-64 only (so they won't run on macOS or Windows) **
-```
-docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/host aquasec/kube-bench:latest install
-```
-
-You can then run `./kube-bench [master|node]`.
-
-### Installing from sources
-
-If Go is installed on the target machines, you can simply clone this repository and run as follows (assuming your [`GOPATH` is set](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GOPATH)):
-
-```shell
-go get github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
-cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
-go build -o kube-bench .
-
-# See all supported options
-./kube-bench --help
-
-# Run all checks
-./kube-bench
-```
-
-## Output
-
-There are four output states:
-- [PASS] indicates that the test was run successfully, and passed.
-- [FAIL] indicates that the test was run successfully, and failed. The remediation output describes how to correct the configuration, or includes an error message describing why the test could not be run. 
-- [WARN] means this test needs further attention, for example it is a test that needs to be run manually. Check the remediation output for further information. 
-- [INFO] is informational output that needs no further action.
-
-Note:
-- If the test is Manual, this always generates WARN (because the user has to run it manually)
-- If the test is Scored, and kube-bench was unable to run the test, this generates FAIL (because the test has not been passed, and as a Scored test, if it doesn't pass then it must be considered a failure).
-- If the test is Not Scored, and kube-bench was unable to run the test, this generates WARN.
-- If the test is Scored, type is empty, and there are no `test_items` present, it generates a WARN. This is to highlight tests that appear to be incompletely defined. 
-
-## Configuration
-
-Kubernetes configuration and binary file locations and names can vary from installation to installation, so these are configurable in the `cfg/config.yaml` file.
-
-Any settings in the version-specific config file `cfg/<version>/config.yaml` take precedence over settings in the main `cfg/config.yaml` file.
-
-You can read more about `kube-bench` configuration in our [documentation](docs/README.md#configuration-and-variables).
-
-## Troubleshooting
-
-Running `kube-bench` with the `-v 3` parameter will generate debug logs that can be very helpful for debugging problems.
-
-If you are using one of the example `job*.yaml` files, you will need to edit the `command` field, for example `["kube-bench", "-v", "3"]`. Once the job has run, the logs can be retrieved using `kubectl logs` on the job's pod.
-
-## Test config YAML representation
-
-The tests (or "controls") are represented as YAML documents (installed by default into `./cfg`). There are different versions of these test YAML files reflecting different versions of the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. You will find more information about the test file YAML definitions in our [documentation](docs/README.md).
-
-### Omitting checks
-
-If you decide that a recommendation is not appropriate for your environment, you can choose to omit it by editing the test YAML file to give it the check type `skip` as in this example:
-
-```yaml
-  checks:
-  - id: 2.1.1
-    text: "Ensure that the --allow-privileged argument is set to false (Scored)"
-    type: "skip"
-    scored: true
-```
-
-No tests will be run for this check and the output will be marked [INFO].
+## Contributing
+Kindly read [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) before contributing. 
+We welcome PRs and issue reports.
 
 ## Roadmap
 
 Going forward we plan to release updates to kube-bench to add support for new releases of the CIS Benchmark. Note that these are not released as frequently as Kubernetes releases.
-
-We welcome PRs and issue reports.
-
-## Testing locally with kind
-
-Our makefile contains targets to test your current version of kube-bench inside a [Kind](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/) cluster. This can be very handy if you don't want to run a real Kubernetes cluster for development purposes.
-
-First, you'll need to create the cluster using `make kind-test-cluster` this will create a new cluster if it cannot be found on your machine. By default, the cluster is named `kube-bench` but you can change the name by using the environment variable `KIND_PROFILE`.
-
-*If kind cannot be found on your system the target will try to install it using `go get`*
-
-Next, you'll have to build the kube-bench docker image using `make build-docker`, then we will be able to push the docker image to the cluster using `make kind-push`.
-
-Finally, we can use the `make kind-run` target to run the current version of kube-bench in the cluster and follow the logs of pods created. (Ctrl+C to exit)
-
-Every time you want to test a change, you'll need to rebuild the docker image and push it to cluster before running it again. ( `make build-docker kind-push kind-run` )
-
-## Contributing
-
-### Bugs
-
-If you think you have found a bug please follow the instructions below.
-
-- Please spend a small amount of time giving due diligence to the issue tracker. Your issue might be a duplicate.
-- Open a [new issue](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/issues/new) if a duplicate doesn't already exist.
-- Note the version of kube-bench you are running (from `kube-bench version`) and the command line options you are using.
-- Note the version of Kubernetes you are running (from `kubectl version` or `oc version` for OpenShift).
-- Set `-v 10` command line option and save the log output. Please paste this into your issue.
-- Remember users might be searching for your issue in the future, so please give it a meaningful title to help others.
-
-### Features
-
-We also use the GitHub issue tracker to track feature requests. If you have an idea to make kube-bench even more awesome follow the steps below.
-
-- Open a [new issue](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/issues/new).
-- Remember users might be searching for your issue in the future, so please give it a meaningful title to helps others.
-- Clearly define the use case, using concrete examples. For example, I type `this` and kube-bench does `that`.
-- If you would like to include a technical design for your feature please feel free to do so.
-
-### Pull Requests
-
-We welcome pull requests!
-
-- Your PR is more likely to be accepted if it focuses on just one change.
-- Please include a comment with the results before and after your change.
-- Your PR is more likely to be accepted if it includes tests. (We have not historically been very strict about tests, but we would like to improve this!).
-- You're welcome to submit a draft PR if you would like early feedback on an idea or an approach.
-- Happy coding!

cfg/ack-1.0/controlplane.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "ack-1.0"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Revoke client certificate when possible leakage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Kubernetes provides the option to use client certificates for user authentication.
+          ACK issues kubeconfig with its client certificates as the user credentials for connecing to target cluster.
+          User should revoke his/her issued kubeconfig when possible leakage.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Consider modification of the audit policy in use on the cluster to include these items, at a
+          minimum.
+        scored: false

cfg/ack-1.0/etcd.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "ack-1.0"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/ack-1.0/managedservices.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "ack-1.0"
+id: 6
+text: "Managed Services"
+type: "managedservices"
+groups:
+  - id: 6.1
+    text: "Image Registry and Image Scanning"
+    checks:
+      - id: 6.1.1
+        text: "Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using ACR image scanning or a third party provider (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using ACR image scanning or a third party provider by follow the ACR document: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/160146.htm
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.1.2
+        text: "Minimize user access to ACR (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Minimize user access to ACR by follow the ACR document to setup network access control: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/142179.htm
+          And follow the ACR document to setup Resource Access Management (RAM) policies for ACR: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/144229.htm
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.1.3
+        text: "Minimize cluster access to read-only for ACR (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Minimize cluster access to read-only for ACR
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.1.4
+        text: "Minimize Container Registries to only those approved (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Minimize Container Registries to only those approved
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 6.2
+    text: "Key Management Service (KMS)"
+    checks:
+      - id: 6.2.1
+        text: "Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted using keys managed in KMS (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted using keys managed in KMS by follow The ACK document: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/zh/doc-detail/177372.htm
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 6.3
+    text: "Cluster Networking"
+    checks:
+      - id: 6.3.1
+        text: "Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.3.2
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.3.3
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.3.4
+        text: "Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.3.5
+        text: "Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 6.4
+    text: "Storage"
+    checks:
+      - id: 6.4.1
+        text: "Enable data disk encryption for Alibaba Cloud Disks (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Enable data disk encryption for Alibaba Cloud Disks
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 6.5
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 6.5.1
+        text: "Ensure Cluster Auditing is Enabled (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Ensure Cluster Auditing is Enabled
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 6.6
+    text: "Other Cluster Configurations"
+    checks:
+      - id: 6.6.1
+        text: "Ensure Pod Security Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Ensure Pod Security Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.6.2
+        text: "Enable Cloud Security Center (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Enable Cloud Security Center
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 6.6.3
+        text: "Consider ACK Sandboxed-Container for running untrusted workloads (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Consider ACK Sandboxed-Container for running untrusted workloads
+
+      - id: 6.6.4
+        text: "Consider ACK TEE-based when running confidential computing (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Consider ACK TEE-based when running confidential computing
+
+      - id: 6.6.5
+        text: "Consider use service account token volume projection (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: Consider use service account token volume projection

cfg/ack-1.0/master.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,968 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "ack-1.0"
+id: 1
+text: "Master Node Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Master Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          master node.
+          For example, chmod 644 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          stat -c permissions=%a /usr/lib/systemd/system/etcd.service || \
+          if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          stat -c %U:%G /usr/lib/systemd/system/etcd.service || \
+          if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "stat -c permissions=%a <path/to/cni/files>"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: "stat -c %U:%G <path/to/cni/files>"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          stat -c permissions=%a /var/lib/etcd/data.etcd || \
+          ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the below command:
+          ps -ef | grep etcd
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          stat -c %U:%G /var/lib/etcd/data.etcd || \
+          ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c %U:%G
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd:etcd"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the below command:
+          ps -ef | grep etcd
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 644 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--basic-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and remove the --basic-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-https"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: "--kubelet-https"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and remove the --kubelet-https parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the master node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example:
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin PodSecurityPolicy is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create Pod Security Policy objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes PodSecurityPolicy:
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,PodSecurityPolicy,...
+          Then restart the API Server.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--insecure-bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and remove the --insecure-bind-address parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--insecure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the below parameter.
+          --insecure-port=0
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: gt
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or
+          set it to a different (non-zero) desired port.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example:
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30 or as an appropriate number of days:
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value.
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master 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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example,
+          --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts:
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.31
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the master node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file: --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.32
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.33
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM
+          _SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM
+          _SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM
+          _SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example:
+          --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the master node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the master node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the master node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/ack-1.0/node.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,390 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "ack-1.0"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 644 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 644 $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: anonymous: enabled to
+          false.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authorization: mode to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: x509: clientCAFile to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set readOnlyPort to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set streamingConnectionIdleTimeout to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: '{.protectKernelDefaults}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set protectKernelDefaults: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set makeIPTablesUtilChains: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set eventRecordQPS: to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set tlsCertFile to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and tlsPrivateKeyFile
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set TLSCipherSuites: to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false

cfg/ack-1.0/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "ack-1.0"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that
+          the .spec.privileged field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostPID field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostIPC field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostNetwork field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.runAsUser.rule is set to either MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with the range of
+          UIDs not including 0.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.requiredDropCapabilities is set to include either NET_RAW or ALL.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that allowedCapabilities is not present in PSPs for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications runnning on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          if possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.6
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.6.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.6.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Seccomp is an alpha feature currently. By default, all alpha features are disabled. So, you
+          would need to enable alpha features in the apiserver by passing "--feature-
+          gates=AllAlpha=true" argument.
+          Edit the /etc/kubernetes/apiserver file on the master node and set the KUBE_API_ARGS
+          parameter to "--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true"
+          KUBE_API_ARGS="--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true"
+          Based on your system, restart the kube-apiserver service. For example:
+          systemctl restart kube-apiserver.service
+          Use annotations to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions. An
+          example is as below:
+          apiVersion: v1
+          kind: Pod
+          metadata:
+            name: trustworthy-pod
+            annotations:
+              seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/pod: docker/default
+          spec:
+            containers:
+              - name: trustworthy-container
+                image: sotrustworthy:latest
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.6.3
+        text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
+          suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.6.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/aks-1.0/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/aks-1.0/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "aks-1.0"
+id: 2
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 2.1
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1.1
+        text: "Enable audit Logs"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Azure audit logs are enabled and managed in the Azure portal. To enable log collection for
+          the Kubernetes master components in your AKS cluster, open the Azure portal in a web
+          browser and complete the following steps:
+          1. Select the resource group for your AKS cluster, such as myResourceGroup. Don't
+             select the resource group that contains your individual AKS cluster resources, such
+             as MC_myResourceGroup_myAKSCluster_eastus.
+          2. On the left-hand side, choose Diagnostic settings.
+          3. Select your AKS cluster, such as myAKSCluster, then choose to Add diagnostic setting.
+          4. Enter a name, such as myAKSClusterLogs, then select the option to Send to Log Analytics.
+          5. Select an existing workspace or create a new one. If you create a workspace, provide
+             a workspace name, a resource group, and a location.
+          6. In the list of available logs, select the logs you wish to enable. For this example,
+             enable the kube-audit and kube-audit-admin logs. Common logs include the kube-
+             apiserver, kube-controller-manager, and kube-scheduler. You can return and change
+             the collected logs once Log Analytics workspaces are enabled.
+          7. When ready, select Save to enable collection of the selected logs.
+        scored: false

cfg/aks-1.0/managedservices.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "aks-1.0"
+id: 5
+text: "Managed Services"
+type: "managedservices"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "Image Registry and Image Scanning"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using Azure Defender image scanning or a third party provider (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize user access to Azure Container Registry (ACR) (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Azure Container Registry
+          If you use Azure Container Registry (ACR) as your container image store, you need to grant
+          permissions to the service principal for your AKS cluster to read and pull images. Currently,
+          the recommended configuration is to use the az aks create or az aks update command to
+          integrate with a registry and assign the appropriate role for the service principal. For
+          detailed steps, see Authenticate with Azure Container Registry from Azure Kubernetes
+          Service.
+          To avoid needing an Owner or Azure account administrator role, you can configure a
+          service principal manually or use an existing service principal to authenticate ACR from
+          AKS. For more information, see ACR authentication with service principals or Authenticate
+          from Kubernetes with a pull secret.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize cluster access to read-only for Azure Container Registry (ACR) (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize Container Registries to only those approved (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Access and identity options for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Prefer using dedicated AKS Service Accounts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Azure Active Directory integration
+          The security of AKS clusters can be enhanced with the integration of Azure Active Directory
+          (AD). Built on decades of enterprise identity management, Azure AD is a multi-tenant,
+          cloud-based directory, and identity management service that combines core directory
+          services, application access management, and identity protection. With Azure AD, you can
+          integrate on-premises identities into AKS clusters to provide a single source for account
+          management and security.
+          Azure Active Directory integration with AKS clusters
+          With Azure AD-integrated AKS clusters, you can grant users or groups access to Kubernetes
+          resources within a namespace or across the cluster. To obtain a kubectl configuration
+          context, a user can run the az aks get-credentials command. When a user then interacts
+          with the AKS cluster with kubectl, they're prompted to sign in with their Azure AD
+          credentials. This approach provides a single source for user account management and
+          password credentials. The user can only access the resources as defined by the cluster
+          administrator.
+          Azure AD authentication is provided to AKS clusters with OpenID Connect. OpenID Connect
+          is an identity layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. For more information on OpenID
+          Connect, see the Open ID connect documentation. From inside of the Kubernetes cluster,
+          Webhook Token Authentication is used to verify authentication tokens. Webhook token
+          authentication is configured and managed as part of the AKS cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Key Management Service (KMS)"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Cluster Networking"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.3
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.4
+        text: "Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.5
+        text: "Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Manage Kubernetes RBAC users with Azure AD (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.5.2
+        text: "Use Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.6
+    text: "Other Cluster Configurations"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.6.1
+        text: "Restrict untrusted workloads (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.6.2
+        text: "Hostile multi-tenant workloads (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false

cfg/aks-1.0/master.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: "eks-1.0"
+version: "aks-1.0"
 id: 1
 text: "Control Plane Components"
 type: "master"

cfg/aks-1.0/node.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "aks-1.0"
+id: 3
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 644 $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: anonymous: enabled to
+          false.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authorization: mode to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: x509: clientCAFile to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set readOnlyPort to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set streamingConnectionIdleTimeout to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: '{.protectKernelDefaults}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set protectKernelDefaults: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Manual) "
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set makeIPTablesUtilChains: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set eventRecordQPS: to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line rotateCertificates: true or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false

cfg/aks-1.0/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "aks-1.0"
+id: 4
+text: "Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Pod Security Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that
+          the .spec.privileged field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostPID field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostIPC field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostNetwork field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.runAsUser.rule is set to either MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with the range of
+          UIDs not including 0.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.requiredDropCapabilities is set to include either NET_RAW or ALL.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that allowedCapabilities is not present in PSPs for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilities in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applications which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.3
+    text: "Azure Policy / OPA"
+    checks: []
+
+  - id: 4.4
+    text: "CNI Plugin"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the latest CNI version is used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the documentation of AWS CNI plugin, and ensure latest CNI version is used.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.5
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.5.1
+        text: "Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.5.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.6
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.6.1
+        text: "Verify that admission controllers are working as expected (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.7.2
+        text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
+          suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.7.3
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.20/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.20/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.20"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Consider modification of the audit policy in use on the cluster to include these items, at a
+          minimum.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.20/etcd.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.20"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.20/node.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.20"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 644 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 644 $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: anonymous: enabled to
+          false.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authorization: mode to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: x509: clientCAFile to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set readOnlyPort to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set streamingConnectionIdleTimeout to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: '{.protectKernelDefaults}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set protectKernelDefaults: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set makeIPTablesUtilChains: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set eventRecordQPS: to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set tlsCertFile to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and tlsPrivateKeyFile
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line rotateCertificates: true or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set TLSCipherSuites: to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.20/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.20"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that
+          the .spec.privileged field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostPID field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostIPC field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostNetwork field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.runAsUser.rule is set to either MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with the range of
+          UIDs not including 0.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.requiredDropCapabilities is set to include either NET_RAW or ALL.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that allowedCapabilities is not present in PSPs for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          if possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use security context to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
+          suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.23/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.23/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.23"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the audit policy provided for the cluster and ensure that it covers
+          at least the following areas,
+          - Access to Secrets managed by the cluster. Care should be taken to only
+            log Metadata for requests to Secrets, ConfigMaps, and TokenReviews, in
+            order to avoid risk of logging sensitive data.
+          - Modification of Pod and Deployment objects.
+          - Use of `pods/exec`, `pods/portforward`, `pods/proxy` and `services/proxy`.
+          For most requests, minimally logging at the Metadata level is recommended
+          (the most basic level of logging).
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.23/etcd.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.23"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.23/master.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,966 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.23"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 644 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 644 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 644 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 644 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd:etcd"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 644 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
+          from enabled admission plugins.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-https"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: "--kubelet-https"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --kubelet-https parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between
+          the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority.
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority=<ca-string>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: gt
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or
+          set it to a different (non-zero) desired port.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example,
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30
+          or as an appropriate number of days, for example,
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value. For example,
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example, --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts. For example,
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file.
+          For example, --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.31
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.32
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
+          TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example, --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.23/node.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.23"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chmod 644 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 644 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 644 $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication: anonymous: enabled` to
+          `false`.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          `--anonymous-auth=false`
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authorization.mode` to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication.x509.clientCAFile` to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `readOnlyPort` to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `streamingConnectionIdleTimeout` to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: '{.protectKernelDefaults}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `protectKernelDefaults` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `makeIPTablesUtilChains` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `eventRecordQPS` to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `tlsCertFile` to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and `tlsPrivateKeyFile`
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line `rotateCertificates` to `true` or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `TLSCipherSuites` to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.23/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.23"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to Secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Standards"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that either Pod Security Admission or an external policy control system is in place
+          for every namespace which contains user workloads.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of privileged containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostPID` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostIPC` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostNetwork` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a policy for each namespace in the cluster, ensuring that either `MustRunAsNonRoot`
+          or `MustRunAs` with the range of UIDs not including 0, is set.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with the `NET_RAW` capability.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that `allowedCapabilities` is not present in policies for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.10
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.11
+        text: "Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers that have `.securityContext.windowsOptions.hostProcess` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.12
+        text: "Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `hostPath` volumes.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.13
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers which use `hostPort` sections.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports NetworkPolicies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have NetworkPolicies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using Secrets as files over Secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read Secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the Secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your Pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use `securityContext` to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply SecurityContext to your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply SecurityContexts to your Pods. For a
+          suggested list of SecurityContexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24-microk8s/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.24-microk8s/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the audit policy provided for the cluster and ensure that it covers
+          at least the following areas,
+          - Access to Secrets managed by the cluster. Care should be taken to only
+            log Metadata for requests to Secrets, ConfigMaps, and TokenReviews, in
+            order to avoid risk of logging sensitive data.
+          - Modification of Pod and Deployment objects.
+          - Use of `pods/exec`, `pods/portforward`, `pods/proxy` and `services/proxy`.
+          For most requests, minimally logging at the Metadata level is recommended
+          (the most basic level of logging).
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24-microk8s/etcd.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Not applicable. MicroK8s used dqlite and the communication to this service is done through a
+          local socket (/var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/kine.sock:12379) accessible
+          to users with root permissions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Not applicable. MicroK8s used dqlite and the communication to this service is done through a
+          local socket (/var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/kine.sock:12379) accessible
+          to users with root permissions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Not applicable. MicroK8s used dqlite and the communication to this service is done through a
+          local socket (/var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/kine.sock:12379) accessible
+          to users with root permissions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "if test -e /var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/cluster.crt && test -e /var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/cluster.key; then echo 'certs-found'; fi"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "certs-found"
+        remediation: |
+          The certificate pair for dqlite and tls peer communication is
+          /var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/cluster.crt and
+          /var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/cluster.key.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/cat $etcdconf | /bin/grep enable-tls || true"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-tls"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: "--enable-tls"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          MicroK8s used dqlite and tls peer communication uses is TLS if the --enable-tls is set in
+          /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/k8s-dqlite, set to true by default.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Not applicable. MicroK8s used dqlite and tls peer communication uses the certificates
+          created upon the snap creation.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Not applicable. MicroK8s used dqlite and tls peer communication uses the certificates
+          created upon the snap creation.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24-microk8s/master.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 644 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $etcdconf; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c %U:%G $etcdconf; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          find /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/cni-network/10-calico.conflist -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/cni-network/10-calico.conflist -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      # Etcd is not running on MicroK8s master nodes
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR='/var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/'
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/
+        scored: true
+
+      # Etcd is not running on MicroK8s master nodes
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR='/var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/'
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown root:root /var/snap/microk8s/current/var/kubernetes/backend/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/client.config; then stat -c permissions=%a /var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/client.config; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 /var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/client.config
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/client.config; then stat -c %U:%G /var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/client.config; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root /var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/client.config
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
+          from enabled admission plugins.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between
+          the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority.
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority=<ca-string>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: gt
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or
+          set it to a different (non-zero) desired port.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example,
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30
+          or as an appropriate number of days, for example,
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value. For example,
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example, --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts. For example,
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      # MicroK8s does not use etcd. The API server talk to a local dqlite instance
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file.
+          For example, --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(cat $apiserverconf | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.31
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $apiserverconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
+          TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example, --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $controllermanagerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $schedulerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $schedulerconf | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.24-microk8s/node.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,458 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi' "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; fi' "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi' "
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi' "
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi' "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi' "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}')
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 600 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}')
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate permissions set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi' "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 600 $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi' "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: "{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication: anonymous: enabled` to
+          `false`.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          `--anonymous-auth=false`
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: "{.authorization.mode}"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authorization.mode` to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: "{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}"
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication.x509.clientCAFile` to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Verify that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: "{.readOnlyPort}"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: "{.readOnlyPort}"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `readOnlyPort` to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: "{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: "{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}"
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `streamingConnectionIdleTimeout` to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: "{.protectKernelDefaults}"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `protectKernelDefaults` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: "{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: "{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}"
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `makeIPTablesUtilChains` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the eventRecordQPS argument is set to a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: "{.eventRecordQPS}"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `eventRecordQPS` to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: "{.tlsCertFile}"
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: "{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}"
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `tlsCertFile` to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and `tlsPrivateKeyFile`
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: "{.rotateCertificates}"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: "{.rotateCertificates}"
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line `rotateCertificates` to `true` or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: "{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: "{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "cat $kubeletconf"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: "{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{','}{end}"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `TLSCipherSuites` to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24-microk8s/policies.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to Secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Standards"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that either Pod Security Admission or an external policy control system is in place
+          for every namespace which contains user workloads.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of privileged containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostPID` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostIPC` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostNetwork` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a policy for each namespace in the cluster, ensuring that either `MustRunAsNonRoot`
+          or `MustRunAs` with the range of UIDs not including 0, is set.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with the `NET_RAW` capability.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that `allowedCapabilities` is not present in policies for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.10
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilities in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applications which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.11
+        text: "Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers that have `.securityContext.windowsOptions.hostProcess` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.12
+        text: "Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `hostPath` volumes.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.13
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers which use `hostPort` sections.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports NetworkPolicies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have NetworkPolicies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using Secrets as files over Secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read Secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the Secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your Pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use `securityContext` to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply SecurityContext to your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply SecurityContexts to your Pods. For a
+          suggested list of SecurityContexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.24/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the audit policy provided for the cluster and ensure that it covers
+          at least the following areas,
+          - Access to Secrets managed by the cluster. Care should be taken to only
+            log Metadata for requests to Secrets, ConfigMaps, and TokenReviews, in
+            order to avoid risk of logging sensitive data.
+          - Modification of Pod and Deployment objects.
+          - Use of `pods/exec`, `pods/portforward`, `pods/proxy` and `services/proxy`.
+          For most requests, minimally logging at the Metadata level is recommended
+          (the most basic level of logging).
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24/etcd.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24/master.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd:etcd"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
+          from enabled admission plugins.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between
+          the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority.
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority=<ca-string>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: gt
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or
+          set it to a different (non-zero) desired port.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example,
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30
+          or as an appropriate number of days, for example,
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value. For example,
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example, --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts. For example,
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file.
+          For example, --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.31
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
+          TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example, --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.24/node.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,464 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 600 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate permissions set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 600 $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication: anonymous: enabled` to
+          `false`.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          `--anonymous-auth=false`
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authorization.mode` to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication.x509.clientCAFile` to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Verify that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `readOnlyPort` to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `streamingConnectionIdleTimeout` to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: '{.protectKernelDefaults}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `protectKernelDefaults` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `makeIPTablesUtilChains` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the eventRecordQPS argument is set to a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `eventRecordQPS` to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `tlsCertFile` to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and `tlsPrivateKeyFile`
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line `rotateCertificates` to `true` or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `TLSCipherSuites` to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.24/policies.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.24"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to Secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Standards"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that either Pod Security Admission or an external policy control system is in place
+          for every namespace which contains user workloads.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of privileged containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostPID` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostIPC` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostNetwork` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a policy for each namespace in the cluster, ensuring that either `MustRunAsNonRoot`
+          or `MustRunAs` with the range of UIDs not including 0, is set.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with the `NET_RAW` capability.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that `allowedCapabilities` is not present in policies for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.10
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.11
+        text: "Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers that have `.securityContext.windowsOptions.hostProcess` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.12
+        text: "Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `hostPath` volumes.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.13
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers which use `hostPort` sections.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports NetworkPolicies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have NetworkPolicies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using Secrets as files over Secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read Secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the Secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your Pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use `securityContext` to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply SecurityContext to your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply SecurityContexts to your Pods. For a
+          suggested list of SecurityContexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.5/controlplane.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.5
+version: "cis-1.5"
 id: 3
 text: "Control Plane Configuration"
 type: "controlplane"
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ groups:
     checks:
       - id: 3.2.1
         text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Scored)"
-        type: "manual"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
         remediation: |
           Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
         scored: true

cfg/cis-1.5/etcd.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.15
+version: "cis-1.5"
 id: 2
 text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
 type: "etcd"

cfg/cis-1.5/master.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.5
+version: "cis-1.5"
 id: 1
 text: "Master Node Security Configuration"
 type: "master"
@@ -158,7 +158,13 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.11
         text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Scored)"
-        audit: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -176,7 +182,13 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.12
         text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Scored)"
-        audit: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c %U:%G
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G $DATA_DIR
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "etcd:etcd"
@@ -223,7 +235,7 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.15
         text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -234,12 +246,12 @@ groups:
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chmod 644 /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
+          chmod 644 $schedulerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.16
         text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "root:root"
@@ -250,12 +262,12 @@ groups:
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.17
         text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -266,12 +278,12 @@ groups:
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chmod 644 /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf
+          chmod 644 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.18
         text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "root:root"
@@ -282,7 +294,7 @@ groups:
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.19
@@ -766,13 +778,7 @@ groups:
       - id: 1.2.26
         text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Scored)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
-        tests:
-          bin_op: or
-          test_items:
-            - flag: "--request-timeout"
-              set: false
-            - flag: "--request-timeout"
-              set: true
+        type: manual
         remediation: |
           Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
           and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
@@ -908,7 +914,7 @@ groups:
           test_items:
             - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
               compare:
-                op: has
+                op: valid_elements
                 value: "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"
               set: true
         remediation: |
@@ -997,12 +1003,15 @@ groups:
         text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Scored)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: "--feature-gates"
               compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true"
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
               set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
         remediation: |
           Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
           on the master node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.

cfg/cis-1.5/node.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.5
+version: "cis-1.5"
 id: 4
 text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
 type: "node"
@@ -25,22 +25,24 @@ groups:
         scored: true
 
       - id: 4.1.2
-        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
-        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: root:root
-              set: true
+            - flag: "File not found"
         remediation: |
-          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
-          For example,
-          chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
         scored: true
 
       - id: 4.1.3
         text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)"
         audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
               set: true
@@ -57,6 +59,7 @@ groups:
         text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
         audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: root:root
               set: true
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ groups:
       - id: 4.1.7
         text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)"
         audit: |
-          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}')
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
           if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
           if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
         tests:
@@ -118,7 +121,7 @@ groups:
       - id: 4.1.8
         text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
         audit: |
-          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}')
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
           if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
           if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
         tests:
@@ -436,13 +439,17 @@ groups:
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
               path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
               set: true
               compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: true
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
         remediation: |
           Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
           on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.

cfg/cis-1.5/policies.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.5
+version: "cis-1.5"
 id: 5
 text: "Kubernetes Policies"
 type: "policies"
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ groups:
         text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Not Scored)"
         type: "manual"
         remediation: |
-          Review the use of capabilites in applications runnning on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
           contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
           a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
         scored: false

cfg/cis-1.6-k3s/config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml
+
+master:
+  components:
+    - scheduler
+    - controllermanager
+    - node
+
+  scheduler:
+    kubeconfig:
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/scheduler.kubeconfig
+    defaultkubeconfig: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/scheduler.kubeconfig
+
+  controllermanager:
+    kubeconfig:
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/cloud-controller.kubeconfig
+    defaultkubeconfig: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/cloud-controller.kubeconfig
+
+etcd:
+  components:
+    - etcd
+  etcd:
+    confs:
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd/config
+    defaultconf: /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd/config
+
+node:
+  components:
+    - proxy
+    - kubelet
+  proxy:
+    kubeconfig:
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/kubeproxy.kubeconfig"
+    defaultkubeconfig: "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/kubeproxy.kubeconfig"
+  kubelet:
+    kubeconfig:
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/kubelet.kubeconfig"
+    defaultkubeconfig: "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/kubelet.kubeconfig"
+    cafile:
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/server-ca.crt"
+    defaultcafile: "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/server-ca.crt"

cfg/cis-1.6-k3s/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.6-k3s"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "audit-policy-file"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster and pass it to k3s.
+          e.g. --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-path=/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/logs/audit-log'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Consider modification of the audit policy in use on the cluster to include these items, at a
+          minimum.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.6-k3s/etcd.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.6-k3s"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate if use etcd as database (Automated)"
+        audit: grep -A 4 'client-transport-security' $etcdconf | grep -E 'cert-file|key-file'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "cert-file"
+            - flag: "key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s uses a config file for etcd that can be found at $etcdconf.
+          The config file contains client-transport-security: which has fields that have the peer cert and peer key files. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: grep 'client-cert-auth' $etcdconf
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "client-cert-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s uses a config file for etcd that can be found at $etcdconf.
+          client-cert-auth is set to true. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: grep 'auto-tls' $etcdconf | cat
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "auto-tls"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "auto-tls"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s starts Etcd without this flag. It is set to false by default.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: grep -A 4 'peer-transport-security' $etcdconf | grep -E 'cert-file|key-file'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "cert-file"
+            - flag: "key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s starts Etcd with a config file found here, $etcdconf.
+          The config file contains peer-transport-security: which has fields that have the peer cert and peer key files.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: grep -A 4 'peer-transport-security' $etcdconf | grep 'client-cert-auth'
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "client-cert-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s uses a config file for etcd that can be found at $etcdconf.
+          The config file contains peer-transport-security: which has client-cert-auth set to true. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: grep 'peer-auto-tls' $etcdconf | cat
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "peer-auto-tls"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "peer-auto-tls"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s uses a config file for etcd that can be found at $etcdconf.
+          Within the file, it does not contain the peer-auto-tls field. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          if [ -f "$etcdconf" ];then
+            etcd_ca=$(grep 'trusted-ca-file' $etcdconf | awk -F ":|: *" '{print $NF}');
+            apiserver_ca=$(journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "trusted-ca-file" | awk -F "=" '{print $NF}')
+            if [ "$etcd_ca" == "$apiserver_ca" ]; then
+              echo 'etcd_and_apiserver_have_same_ca';
+            else
+              echo 'etcd_and_apiserver_ca_not_same1' ;
+            fi
+          else
+            echo 'etcd_and_apiserver_ca_not_same'; return ;
+          fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd_and_apiserver_ca_not_same"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s uses a config file for etcd that can be found at $etcdconf
+          and the trusted-ca-file parameters in it are set to unique values specific to etcd. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.6-k3s/master.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.6-k3s"
+id: 1
+text: "Master Node Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Master Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive if etcd is used (Automated)"
+        audit: stat -c permissions=%a /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the below command:
+          journalctl -u k3s | grep 'Managed etcd' | grep -v grep
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd if etcd is used (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the k3s node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the k3s node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the k3s node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the k3s node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the cloud-controller.kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the $controllermanagerkubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "stat -c %U:%G /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the k3s node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 644 /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/*.crt
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "anonymous-auth"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s kube-apiserver is configured to run with --anonymous-auth=false flag and value.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "basic-auth-file" | cat
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--basic-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s does not run with basic authentication enabled. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "token-auth-file" | cat
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s does not run with basic authentication enabled. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "kubelet-https" | cat
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-https"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: "--kubelet-https"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s kube-apiserver doesn't run with the --kubelet-https parameter as it runs with TLS. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep -E 'kubelet-client-certificate|kubelet-client-key'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s kube-apiserver is ran with these arguments for secure communication with kubelet. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s kube-apiserver is ran with this argument for secure communication with kubelet. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "authorization-mode"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets Node,RBAC as the parameter to the --authorization-mode argument. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "authorization-mode"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets Node,RBAC as the parameter to the --authorization-mode argument. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "authorization-mode"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets Node,RBAC as the parameter to the --authorization-mode argument. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s only sets NodeRestriction,PodSecurityPolicy as the parameter to the --enable-admission-plugins argument.
+          To configure this, follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then refer to K3s's documentation to see how to supply additional api server configuration via the kube-apiserver-arg parameter.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s only sets NodeRestriction,PodSecurityPolicy as the parameter to the --enable-admission-plugins argument.
+          No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s only sets NodeRestriction,PodSecurityPolicy as the parameter to the --enable-admission-plugins argument.
+          To configure this, follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then refer to K3s's documentation to see how to supply additional api server configuration via the kube-apiserver-arg parameter.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          K3s would need to have the SecurityContextDeny admission plugin enabled by passing it as an argument to K3s.
+          --kube-apiserver-arg='enable-admission-plugins=SecurityContextDeny
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "ServiceAccount"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s does not use this argument.
+          If there's a desire to use this argument, follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then refer to K3s's documentation to see how to supply additional api server configuration via the kube-apiserver-arg parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "disable-admission-plugins" | cat
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s does not use this argument. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin PodSecurityPolicy is set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          K3s would need to have the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin enabled by passing it as an argument to K3s.
+          --kube-apiserver-arg='enable-admission-plugins=PodSecurityPolicy.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          K3s would need to have the NodeRestriction admission plugin enabled by passing it as an argument to K3s.
+          --kube-apiserver-arg='enable-admission-plugins=NodeRestriction.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "enable-admission-plugins"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--insecure-bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s explicitly excludes the use of the --insecure-bind-address parameter. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "insecure-port"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--insecure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s starts the kube-apiserver process with this argument's parameter set to 0. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "secure-port"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: gt
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the parameter of 6444 for the --secure-port argument. No manual remediation is needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "profiling"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --profiling flag parameter to false. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "audit-log-path"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following argument, --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-path=/path/to/log/file'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "audit-log-maxage"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following argument, --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-maxage=30'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "audit-log-maxbackup"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following argument, --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-maxbackup=10'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "audit-log-maxsize"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following argument, --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-maxsize=100'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "request-timeout" | cat
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--request-timeout"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--request-timeout"
+              compare:
+                op: lte
+                value: 60
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s does not set the --request-timeout argument. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "service-account-lookup"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following argument, --kube-apiserver-arg='service-account-lookup=true'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "service-account-key-file"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --service-account-key-file explicitly. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep -E 'etcd-certfile|etcd-keyfile'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments explicitly. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep -E 'tls-cert-file|tls-private-key-file'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments explicitly. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.31
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "client-ca-file"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --client-ca-file argument explicitly. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.32
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep -E 'etcd-cafile'
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --etcd-cafile argument explicitly. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.33
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep -E "encryption-provider-config"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be ran with the follow, --kube-apiserver-arg='encryption-provider-config=/path/to/encryption_config'.
+          This can be done by running k3s with the --secrets-encryptiuon argument which will configure the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.34
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following, --secrets-encryption=true, and verify that one of the allowed encryption providers is present.
+          Run the below command on the master node.
+          grep aescbc /path/to/encryption-config.json
+          Verify that aescbc/kms/secretbox is set as the encryption provider for all the desired resources.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.35
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "tls-cipher-suites"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s explicitly doesn't set this flag. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following, --kube-controller-manager-arg='terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "profiling"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --profiling flag parameter to false. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "use-service-account-credentials"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following, --kube-controller-manager-arg='use-service-account-credentials=true'
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "service-account-private-key-file"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --service-account-private-key-file argument with the service account key file. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "root-ca-file"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --root-ca-file argument with the root ca file. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "RotateKubeletServerCertificate" | cat
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s implements its own logic for certificate generation and rotation.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "bind-address"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --bind-address argument to 127.0.0.1. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-scheduler" | tail -n1 | grep "profiling"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --profiling flag parameter to false. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-controller-manager" | tail -n1 | grep "bind-address"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --bind-address argument to 127.0.0.1. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.6-k3s/node.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.6-k3s"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeproxy.kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: stat -c %a $proxykubeconfig
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+            - flag: "$proxykubeconfig"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "$proxykubeconfig"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s creates $kubeletkubeconfig with 644 permissions. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s creates $kubeletkubeconfig with root:root ownership. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletcafile
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s creates $kubeletcafile with 644 permissions.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: stat -c %U:%G $kubeletcafile
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s creates $kubeletcafile with root:root ownership.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet --config configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "anonymous-auth"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s starts kubelet with --anonymous-auth set to false. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "authorization-mode"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          K3s starts kubelet with Webhook as the value for the --authorization-mode argument. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kube-apiserver" | tail -n1 | grep "client-ca-file"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s starts the kubelet process with the --client-ca-file. No manual remediation needed.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "read-only-port"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s starts the kubelet process with the --read-only-port argument set to 0.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "streaming-connection-idle-timeout"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s does not set --streaming-connection-idle-timeout when starting kubelet.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "protect-kernel-defaults"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be started with the following, --protect-kernel-defaults=true.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep "make-iptables-util-chains"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          K3s server needs to be run with the following, --kube-apiserver-arg='make-iptables-util-chains=true'.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: /bin/ps -fC containerd
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set eventRecordQPS: to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: journalctl -u k3s | grep "Running kubelet" | tail -n1 | grep -E 'tls-cert-file|tls-private-key-file'
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s sets the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments when executing the kubelet process.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Not Applicable)"
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.6-k3s/policies.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,260 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.6-k3s"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+          kubectl get roles --all-namespaces -o yaml
+          kubectl get clusterroles -o yaml
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl describe psp <psp_name> | grep MustRunAsNonRoot
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets the Rule value to MustRunAsNonRoot. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp -o json | jq .items[] | jq -r 'select((.spec.hostPID == null) or (.spec.hostPID == false))' | jq .metadata.name | wc -l | xargs -I {} echo '--count={}'
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets the hostPID value to false explicitly for the PSP it creates. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp -o json | jq .items[] | jq -r 'select((.spec.hostIPC == null) or (.spec.hostIPC == false))' | jq .metadata.name | wc -l | xargs -I {} echo '--count={}'
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets the HostIPC value to false explicitly for the PSP it creates. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp -o json | jq .items[] | jq -r 'select((.spec.hostNetwork == null) or (.spec.hostNetwork == false))' | jq .metadata.name | wc -l | xargs -I {} echo '--count={}'
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets the HostNetwork value to false explicitly for the PSP it creates. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp -o json | jq .items[] | jq -r 'select((.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation == null) or (.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation == false))' | jq .metadata.name | wc -l | xargs -I {} echo '--count={}'
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets the allowPrivilegeEscalation value to false explicitly for the PSP it creates. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp -o json | jq .items[] | jq -r 'select((.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation == null) or (.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation == false))' | jq .metadata.name | wc -l | xargs -I {} echo '--count={}'
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets the runAsUser.Rule value to MustRunAsNonRoot. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp <psp_name> -o json | jq .spec.requiredDropCapabilities[]
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets .spec.requiredDropCapabilities[] to a value of All. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets allowedCapabilities to anything other than an empty array. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          kubectl get psp
+          An operator should apply a PodSecurityPolicy that sets requiredDropCapabilities to ALL. An example of this can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          By default, K3s use Canal (Calico and Flannel) and fully supports network policies.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command on the master node.
+          for i in kube-system kube-public default; do
+            kubectl get networkpolicies -n $i;
+          done
+          Verify that there are network policies applied to each of the namespaces.
+          An operator should apply NetworkPolcyies that prevent unneeded traffic from traversing networks unnecessarily. An example of applying a NetworkPolcy can be found in the Hardening Guide.
+          https://docs.rancher.cn/docs/k3s/security/hardening-guide/_index
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to find references to objects which use environment variables defined from secrets.
+          kubectl get all -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@..secretKeyRef)]} {.kind} {.metadata.name} {"\n"}{end}' -A
+
+          if possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        audit: kubectl get namespaces
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that these namespaces are the ones you need and are adequately administered as per your requirements.
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Seccomp is an alpha feature currently. By default, all alpha features are disabled. So, you
+          would need to enable alpha features in the apiserver by passing "--feature-
+          gates=AllAlpha=true" argument.
+          Edit the /etc/kubernetes/apiserver file on the master node and set the KUBE_API_ARGS
+          parameter to "--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true"
+          KUBE_API_ARGS="--feature-gates=AllAlpha=true"
+          Based on your system, restart the kube-apiserver service. For example:
+          systemctl restart kube-apiserver.service
+          Use annotations to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions. An
+          example is as below:
+          apiVersion: v1
+          kind: Pod
+          metadata:
+            name: trustworthy-pod
+            annotations:
+              seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/pod: docker/default
+          spec:
+            containers:
+              - name: trustworthy-container
+                image: sotrustworthy:latest
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
+          suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command on the master node.
+          kubectl get all -n default
+          The only entries there should be system-managed resources such as the kubernetes service.
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.6/controlplane.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.6
+version: "cis-1.6"
 id: 3
 text: "Control Plane Configuration"
 type: "controlplane"
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ groups:
     checks:
       - id: 3.2.1
         text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
-        type: "manual"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
         remediation: |
           Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
         scored: false

cfg/cis-1.6/etcd.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.6
+version: "cis-1.6"
 id: 2
 text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
 type: "etcd"
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ groups:
           bin_op: and
           test_items:
             - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
             - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
         remediation: |
           Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
           Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ groups:
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
               compare:
                 op: eq
                 value: true
@@ -46,8 +49,10 @@ groups:
           bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
               set: false
             - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
               compare:
                 op: eq
                 value: false
@@ -65,7 +70,9 @@ groups:
           bin_op: and
           test_items:
             - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
             - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
         remediation: |
           Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
           for your etcd cluster.
@@ -81,6 +88,7 @@ groups:
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
               compare:
                 op: eq
                 value: true
@@ -97,8 +105,10 @@ groups:
           bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
               set: false
             - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
               compare:
                 op: eq
                 value: false
@@ -114,6 +124,7 @@ groups:
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
         remediation: |
           [Manual test]
           Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the

cfg/cis-1.6/master.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.6
+version: "cis-1.6"
 id: 1
 text: "Master Node Security Configuration"
 type: "master"
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.7
         text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $etcdconf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -106,7 +107,8 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.8
         text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then stat -c %U:%G $etcdconf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "root:root"
@@ -118,8 +120,16 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.9
         text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
-        audit: "stat -c permissions=%a <path/to/cni/files>"
-        type: "manual"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
@@ -128,8 +138,13 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.10
         text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
-        audit: "stat -c %U:%G <path/to/cni/files>"
-        type: "manual"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
@@ -138,7 +153,13 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.11
         text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
-        audit: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -155,7 +176,13 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.12
         text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
-        audit: ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs stat -c %U:%G
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G $DATA_DIR
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "etcd:etcd"
@@ -196,7 +223,7 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.15
         text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -206,24 +233,24 @@ groups:
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chmod 644 /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
+          chmod 644 $schedulerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.16
         text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "root:root"
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.17
         text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Automated)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
@@ -233,19 +260,19 @@ groups:
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chmod 644 /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf
+          chmod 644 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.18
         text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
-        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf; fi'"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "root:root"
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
-          chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
         scored: true
 
       - id: 1.1.19
@@ -254,7 +281,7 @@ groups:
         use_multiple_values: true
         tests:
           test_items:
-            - flag: "root root"
+            - flag: "root:root"
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the master node.
           For example,
@@ -263,7 +290,7 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.20
         text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
-        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
         use_multiple_values: true
         tests:
           test_items:
@@ -279,7 +306,7 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.1.21
         text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
-        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
         use_multiple_values: true
         tests:
           test_items:
@@ -299,7 +326,6 @@ groups:
       - id: 1.2.1
         text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
-        type: manual
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
@@ -700,12 +726,7 @@ groups:
       - id: 1.2.26
         text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
-        tests:
-          bin_op: or
-          test_items:
-            - flag: "--request-timeout"
-              set: false
-            - flag: "--request-timeout"
+        type: manual
         remediation: |
           Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
           and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
@@ -818,8 +839,15 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 1.2.34
         text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
-        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
-        type: "manual"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
         remediation: |
           Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
           In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
@@ -832,7 +860,7 @@ groups:
           test_items:
             - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
               compare:
-                op: has
+                op: valid_elements
                 value: "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"
         remediation: |
           Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
@@ -918,11 +946,15 @@ groups:
         text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: "--feature-gates"
               compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true"
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
         remediation: |
           Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
           on the master node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.

cfg/cis-1.6/node.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.6
+version: "cis-1.6"
 id: 4
 text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
 type: "node"
@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ groups:
 
       - id: 4.1.2
         text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
-        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
           For example,
@@ -39,11 +41,15 @@ groups:
         text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
         audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
               compare:
                 op: bitmask
                 value: "644"
+            - flag: "$proxykubeconfig"
+              set: false
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
           For example,
@@ -54,8 +60,11 @@ groups:
         text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
         audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "$proxykubeconfig"
+              set: false
         remediation: |
           Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
           For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
@@ -91,7 +100,7 @@ groups:
       - id: 4.1.7
         text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
         audit: |
-          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}')
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
           if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
           if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
         tests:
@@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ groups:
       - id: 4.1.8
         text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
         audit: |
-          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}')
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
           if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
           if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
         tests:
@@ -412,12 +421,16 @@ groups:
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
+          bin_op: or
           test_items:
             - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
               path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
               compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: true
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
         remediation: |
           Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
           on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.

cfg/cis-1.6/policies.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: 1.6
+version: "cis-1.6"
 id: 5
 text: "Kubernetes Policies"
 type: "policies"
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ groups:
         text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
         remediation: |
-          Review the use of capabilites in applications runnning on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
           contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
           a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
         scored: false

cfg/cis-1.7/config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.7/controlplane.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.7"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 3.1.2
+        text: "Service account token authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be implemented
+          in place of service account tokens.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 3.1.3
+        text: "Bootstrap token authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be implemented
+          in place of bootstrap tokens.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the audit policy provided for the cluster and ensure that it covers
+          at least the following areas,
+          - Access to Secrets managed by the cluster. Care should be taken to only
+            log Metadata for requests to Secrets, ConfigMaps, and TokenReviews, in
+            order to avoid risk of logging sensitive data.
+          - Modification of Pod and Deployment objects.
+          - Use of `pods/exec`, `pods/portforward`, `pods/proxy` and `services/proxy`.
+          For most requests, minimally logging at the Metadata level is recommended
+          (the most basic level of logging).
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.7/etcd.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.7"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.7/master.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,947 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.7"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd:etcd"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: have
+                value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
+          from enabled admission plugins.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between
+          the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority.
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority=<ca-string>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 - NoteThis recommendation is obsolete and will be deleted per the consensus process (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              compare:
+                op: gt
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--secure-port"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --secure-port parameter or
+          set it to a different (non-zero) desired port.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example,
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30
+          or as an appropriate number of days, for example,
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value. For example,
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example, --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts. For example,
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file.
+          For example, --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.31
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
+          TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example, --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.7/node.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,455 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.7"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 600 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate permissions set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 600 $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication: anonymous: enabled` to
+          `false`.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          `--anonymous-auth=false`
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authorization.mode` to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication.x509.clientCAFile` to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Verify that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `readOnlyPort` to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `streamingConnectionIdleTimeout` to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `makeIPTablesUtilChains` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the eventRecordQPS argument is set to a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `eventRecordQPS` to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `tlsCertFile` to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and `tlsPrivateKeyFile`
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line `rotateCertificates` to `true` or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `TLSCipherSuites` to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that a limit is set on pod PIDs (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --pod-max-pids
+              path: '{.podPidsLimit}'
+        remediation: |
+          Decide on an appropriate level for this parameter and set it,
+          either via the --pod-max-pids command line parameter or the PodPidsLimit configuration file setting.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.7/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.7"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to Secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.9
+        text: "Minimize access to create persistent volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to PersistentVolume objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.10
+        text: "Minimize access to the proxy sub-resource of nodes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the proxy sub-resource of node objects.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.11
+        text: "Minimize access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequests objects (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequest objects.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.12
+        text: "Minimize access to webhook configuration objects (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the validatingwebhookconfigurations or mutatingwebhookconfigurations objects
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.13
+        text: "Minimize access to the service account token creation (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the token sub-resource of serviceaccount objects.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Standards"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that either Pod Security Admission or an external policy control system is in place
+          for every namespace which contains user workloads.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of privileged containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostPID` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostIPC` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostNetwork` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a policy for each namespace in the cluster, ensuring that either `MustRunAsNonRoot`
+          or `MustRunAs` with the range of UIDs not including 0, is set.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with the `NET_RAW` capability.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that `allowedCapabilities` is not present in policies for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.10
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.11
+        text: "Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers that have `.securityContext.windowsOptions.hostProcess` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.12
+        text: "Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `hostPath` volumes.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.13
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers which use `hostPort` sections.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports NetworkPolicies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have NetworkPolicies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using Secrets as files over Secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read Secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the Secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your Pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use `securityContext` to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply SecurityContext to your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply SecurityContexts to your Pods. For a
+          suggested list of SecurityContexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.8/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.8/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.8"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 3.1.2
+        text: "Service account token authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be implemented
+          in place of service account tokens.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 3.1.3
+        text: "Bootstrap token authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be implemented
+          in place of bootstrap tokens.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the audit policy provided for the cluster and ensure that it covers
+          at least the following areas,
+          - Access to Secrets managed by the cluster. Care should be taken to only
+            log Metadata for requests to Secrets, ConfigMaps, and TokenReviews, in
+            order to avoid risk of logging sensitive data.
+          - Modification of Pod and Deployment objects.
+          - Use of `pods/exec`, `pods/portforward`, `pods/proxy` and `services/proxy`.
+          For most requests, minimally logging at the Metadata level is recommended
+          (the most basic level of logging).
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.8/etcd.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.8"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.8/master.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.8"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd:etcd"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c permissions=%a /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; then stat -c %U:%G /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: have
+                value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
+          from enabled admission plugins.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between
+          the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority.
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority=<ca-string>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "SecurityContextDeny"
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "PodSecurityPolicy"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          SecurityContextDeny, unless PodSecurityPolicy is already in place.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,SecurityContextDeny,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example,
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30
+          or as an appropriate number of days, for example,
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value. For example,
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example, --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts. For example,
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file.
+          For example, --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.30
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
+          TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example, --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.8/node.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,455 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.8"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 600 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate permissions set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 600 $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication: anonymous: enabled` to
+          `false`.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          `--anonymous-auth=false`
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authorization.mode` to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication.x509.clientCAFile` to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Verify that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `readOnlyPort` to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `streamingConnectionIdleTimeout` to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `makeIPTablesUtilChains` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the eventRecordQPS argument is set to a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `eventRecordQPS` to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `tlsCertFile` to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and `tlsPrivateKeyFile`
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line `rotateCertificates` to `true` or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `TLSCipherSuites` to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that a limit is set on pod PIDs (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --pod-max-pids
+              path: '{.podPidsLimit}'
+        remediation: |
+          Decide on an appropriate level for this parameter and set it,
+          either via the --pod-max-pids command line parameter or the PodPidsLimit configuration file setting.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.8/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.8"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to Secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.9
+        text: "Minimize access to create persistent volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to PersistentVolume objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.10
+        text: "Minimize access to the proxy sub-resource of nodes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the proxy sub-resource of node objects.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.11
+        text: "Minimize access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequests objects (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequest objects.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.12
+        text: "Minimize access to webhook configuration objects (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the validatingwebhookconfigurations or mutatingwebhookconfigurations objects
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.13
+        text: "Minimize access to the service account token creation (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the token sub-resource of serviceaccount objects.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Standards"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that either Pod Security Admission or an external policy control system is in place
+          for every namespace which contains user workloads.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of privileged containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostPID` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostIPC` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostNetwork` containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a policy for each namespace in the cluster, ensuring that either `MustRunAsNonRoot`
+          or `MustRunAs` with the range of UIDs not including 0, is set.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with the `NET_RAW` capability.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that `allowedCapabilities` is not present in policies for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.10
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.11
+        text: "Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers that have `.securityContext.windowsOptions.hostProcess` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.12
+        text: "Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `hostPath` volumes.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.2.13
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers which use `hostPort` sections.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports NetworkPolicies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have NetworkPolicies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using Secrets as files over Secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read Secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the Secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your Pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use `securityContext` to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply SecurityContext to your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply SecurityContexts to your Pods. For a
+          suggested list of SecurityContexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.9/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml

cfg/cis-1.9/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.9"
+id: 3
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Client certificate authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be
+          implemented in place of client certificates.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 3.1.2
+        text: "Service account token authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be implemented
+          in place of service account tokens.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 3.1.3
+        text: "Bootstrap token authentication should not be used for users (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Alternative mechanisms provided by Kubernetes such as the use of OIDC should be implemented
+          in place of bootstrap tokens.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-policy-file"
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create an audit policy file for your cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the audit policy provided for the cluster and ensure that it covers
+          at least the following areas,
+          - Access to Secrets managed by the cluster. Care should be taken to only
+            log Metadata for requests to Secrets, ConfigMaps, and TokenReviews, in
+            order to avoid risk of logging sensitive data.
+          - Modification of Pod and Deployment objects.
+          - Use of `pods/exec`, `pods/portforward`, `pods/proxy` and `services/proxy`.
+          For most requests, minimally logging at the Metadata level is recommended
+          (the most basic level of logging).
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.9/etcd.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.9"
+id: 2
+text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+type: "etcd"
+groups:
+  - id: 2
+    text: "Etcd Node Configuration"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure TLS encryption.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+          on the master node and set the below parameters.
+          --cert-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+          --key-file=</path/to/key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --client-cert-auth="true"
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+            --auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file arguments are
+        set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-cert-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE"
+            - flag: "--peer-key-file"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the etcd service documentation and configure peer TLS encryption as appropriate
+          for your etcd cluster.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameters.
+          --peer-client-file=</path/to/peer-cert-file>
+          --peer-key-file=</path/to/peer-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-client-cert-auth"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and set the below parameter.
+          --peer-client-cert-auth=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls argument is not set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--peer-auto-tls"
+              env: "ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the master
+          node and either remove the --peer-auto-tls parameter or set it to false.
+          --peer-auto-tls=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 2.7
+        text: "Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | /bin/grep $etcdbin | /bin/grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--trusted-ca-file"
+              env: "ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE"
+        remediation: |
+          [Manual test]
+          Follow the etcd documentation and create a dedicated certificate authority setup for the
+          etcd service.
+          Then, edit the etcd pod specification file $etcdconf on the
+          master node and set the below parameter.
+          --trusted-ca-file=</path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: false

cfg/cis-1.9/master.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,919 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.9"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Security Configuration"
+type: "master"
+groups:
+  - id: 1.1
+    text: "Control Plane Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the
+          control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $apiserverconf; then stat -c %U:%G $apiserverconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $apiserverconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $controllermanagerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerconf; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerconf; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root $schedulerconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $etcdconf; then find $etcdconf -name '*etcd*' | xargs stat -c %U:%G; fi'"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $etcdconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.9
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c permissions=%a
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.10
+        text: "Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ps -ef | grep $kubeletbin | grep -- --cni-conf-dir | sed 's%.*cni-conf-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%' | xargs -I{} find {} -mindepth 1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+          find /var/lib/cni/networks -type f 2> /dev/null | xargs --no-run-if-empty stat -c %U:%G
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root <path/to/cni/files>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.11
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c permissions=%a "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "700"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example,
+          chmod 700 /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.12
+        text: "Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          DATA_DIR=''
+          for d in $(ps -ef | grep $etcdbin | grep -- --data-dir | sed 's%.*data-dir[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%'); do
+            if test -d "$d"; then DATA_DIR="$d"; fi
+          done
+          if ! test -d "$DATA_DIR"; then DATA_DIR=$etcddatadir; fi
+          stat -c %U:%G "$DATA_DIR"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "etcd:etcd"
+        remediation: |
+          On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument --data-dir,
+          from the command 'ps -ef | grep etcd'.
+          Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above).
+          For example, chown etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.13
+        text: "Ensure that the default administrative credential file permissions are set to 600 (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+         for adminconf in /etc/kubernetes/{admin.conf,super-admin.conf}; do if test -e $adminconf; then stat -c \"permissions=%a %n\" $adminconf; fi; done
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+          On Kubernetes 1.29+ the super-admin.conf file should also be modified, if present.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/super-admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.14
+        text: "Ensure that the default administrative credential file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+         for adminconf in /tmp/{admin.conf,super-admin.conf}; do if test -e $adminconf; then stat -c "ownership=%U:%G %n" $adminconf; fi; done
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "ownership"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example, chown root:root /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf
+          On Kubernetes 1.29+ the super-admin.conf file should also be modified, if present.
+          For example, chmod 600 /etc/kubernetes/super-admin.conf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.15
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.16
+        text: "Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $schedulerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $schedulerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $schedulerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.17
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.18
+        text: "Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $controllermanagerkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $controllermanagerkubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $controllermanagerkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.19
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ | xargs stat -c %U:%G"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "root:root"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chown -R root:root /etc/kubernetes/pki/
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.1.20
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.crt' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.crt
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.1.21
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Manual)"
+        audit: "find /etc/kubernetes/pki/ -name '*.key' | xargs stat -c permissions=%a"
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the control plane node.
+          For example,
+          chmod -R 600 /etc/kubernetes/pki/*.key
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.2
+    text: "API Server"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--token-auth-file"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentication. Then,
+          edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the --token-auth-file=<filename> parameter.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --DenyServiceExternalIPs is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: have
+                value: "DenyServiceExternalIPs"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and remove the `DenyServiceExternalIPs`
+          from enabled admission plugins.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-certificate"
+            - flag: "--kubelet-client-key"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the
+          apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          kubelet client certificate and key parameters as below.
+          --kubelet-client-certificate=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --kubelet-client-key=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--kubelet-certificate-authority"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup the TLS connection between
+          the apiserver and kubelets. Then, edit the API server pod specification file
+          $apiserverconf on the control plane node and set the
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority parameter to the path to the cert file for the certificate authority.
+          --kubelet-certificate-authority=<ca-string>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "AlwaysAllow"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to values other than AlwaysAllow.
+          One such example could be as below.
+          --authorization-mode=RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "Node"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes Node.
+          --authorization-mode=Node,RBAC
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--authorization-mode"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "RBAC"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --authorization-mode parameter to a value that includes RBAC,
+          for example `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "EventRateLimit"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set the desired limits in a configuration file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameters.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,EventRateLimit,...
+          --admission-control-config-file=<path/to/configuration/file>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAdmit
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and either remove the --enable-admission-plugins parameter, or set it to a
+          value that does not include AlwaysAdmit.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "AlwaysPullImages"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to include
+          AlwaysPullImages.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,AlwaysPullImages,...
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "ServiceAccount"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create ServiceAccount objects as per your environment.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure that the --disable-admission-plugins parameter is set to a
+          value that does not include ServiceAccount.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "NamespaceLifecycle"
+            - flag: "--disable-admission-plugins"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --disable-admission-plugins parameter to
+          ensure it does not include NamespaceLifecycle.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.14
+        text: "Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--enable-admission-plugins"
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "NodeRestriction"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure NodeRestriction plug-in on kubelets.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --enable-admission-plugins parameter to a
+          value that includes NodeRestriction.
+          --enable-admission-plugins=...,NodeRestriction,...
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.15
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.16
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-path"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-path parameter to a suitable path and
+          file where you would like audit logs to be written, for example,
+          --audit-log-path=/var/log/apiserver/audit.log
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.17
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxage"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 30
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage parameter to 30
+          or as an appropriate number of days, for example,
+          --audit-log-maxage=30
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.18
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxbackup"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 10
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10 or to an appropriate
+          value. For example,
+          --audit-log-maxbackup=10
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.19
+        text: "Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--audit-log-maxsize"
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 100
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          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
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.20
+        text: "Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        type: manual
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          and set the below parameter as appropriate and if needed.
+          For example, --request-timeout=300s
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.21
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              set: false
+            - flag: "--service-account-lookup"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --service-account-lookup=true
+          Alternatively, you can delete the --service-account-lookup parameter from this file so
+          that the default takes effect.
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.22
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-key-file parameter
+          to the public key file for service accounts. For example,
+          --service-account-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.23
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-certfile"
+            - flag: "--etcd-keyfile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate and key file parameters.
+          --etcd-certfile=<path/to/client-certificate-file>
+          --etcd-keyfile=<path/to/client-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.24
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: and
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cert-file"
+            - flag: "--tls-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the TLS certificate and private key file parameters.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.25
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--client-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection on the apiserver.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the client certificate authority file.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.26
+        text: "Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--etcd-cafile"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and set up the TLS connection between the apiserver and etcd.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the etcd certificate authority file parameter.
+          --etcd-cafile=<path/to/ca-file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.2.27
+        text: "Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--encryption-provider-config"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          Then, edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --encryption-provider-config parameter to the path of that file.
+          For example, --encryption-provider-config=</path/to/EncryptionConfig/File>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.28
+        text: "Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG=$(ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -- --encryption-provider-config | sed 's%.*encryption-provider-config[= ]\([^ ]*\).*%\1%')
+          if test -e $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG; then grep -A1 'providers:' $ENCRYPTION_PROVIDER_CONFIG | tail -n1 | grep -o "[A-Za-z]*" | sed 's/^/provider=/'; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "provider"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "aescbc,kms,secretbox"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and configure a EncryptionConfig file.
+          In this file, choose aescbc, kms or secretbox as the encryption provider.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.2.29
+        text: "Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $apiserverbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--tls-cipher-suites"
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the API server pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,
+          TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
+          TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 1.3
+    text: "Controller Manager"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--terminated-pod-gc-threshold"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold to an appropriate threshold,
+          for example, --terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 1.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--use-service-account-credentials"
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node to set the below parameter.
+          --use-service-account-credentials=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--service-account-private-key-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --service-account-private-key-file parameter
+          to the private key file for service accounts.
+          --service-account-private-key-file=<filename>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--root-ca-file"
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --root-ca-file parameter to the certificate bundle file`.
+          --root-ca-file=<path/to/file>
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.6
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: "RotateKubeletServerCertificate=false"
+              set: true
+            - flag: "--feature-gates"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and set the --feature-gates parameter to include RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.3.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $controllermanagerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Controller Manager pod specification file $controllermanagerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 1.4
+    text: "Scheduler"
+    checks:
+      - id: 1.4.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--profiling"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf file
+          on the control plane node and set the below parameter.
+          --profiling=false
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 1.4.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -ef | grep $schedulerbin | grep -v grep"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--bind-address"
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the Scheduler pod specification file $schedulerconf
+          on the control plane node and ensure the correct value for the --bind-address parameter
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.9/node.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,478 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.9"
+id: 4
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletsvc; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chmod 600 $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet service file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c "if test -e $kubeletsvc; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletsvc; else echo \"File not found\"; fi"'
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+            - flag: "File not found"
+        remediation: |
+            Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+            For example,
+            chown root:root $kubeletsvc
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "If proxy kubeconfig file exists ensure ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 600 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --kubeconfig kubelet.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.7
+        text: "Ensure that the certificate authorities file permissions are set to 600 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c permissions=%a $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the file permissions of the
+          --client-ca-file chmod 600 <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.8
+        text: "Ensure that the client certificate authorities file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: |
+          CAFILE=$(ps -ef | grep kubelet | grep -v apiserver | grep -- --client-ca-file= | awk -F '--client-ca-file=' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)
+          if test -z $CAFILE; then CAFILE=$kubeletcafile; fi
+          if test -e $CAFILE; then stat -c %U:%G $CAFILE; fi
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command to modify the ownership of the --client-ca-file.
+          chown root:root <filename>
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.9
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate permissions set to 600 or more restrictive (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "600"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 600 $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.1.10
+        text: "If the kubelet config.yaml configuration file is being used validate file ownership is set to root:root (Automated)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: true
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication: anonymous: enabled` to
+          `false`.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          `--anonymous-auth=false`
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authorization.mode` to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `authentication.x509.clientCAFile` to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Verify that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `readOnlyPort` to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `streamingConnectionIdleTimeout` to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `makeIPTablesUtilChains` to `true`.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the eventRecordQPS argument is set to a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              compare:
+                op: gte
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `eventRecordQPS` to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cert-file
+              path: '{.tlsCertFile}'
+            - flag: --tls-private-key-file
+              path: '{.tlsPrivateKeyFile}'
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `tlsCertFile` to the location
+          of the certificate file to use to identify this Kubelet, and `tlsPrivateKeyFile`
+          to the location of the corresponding private key file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameters in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --tls-cert-file=<path/to/tls-certificate-file>
+          --tls-private-key-file=<path/to/tls-key-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line `rotateCertificates` to `true` or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example,
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 4.2.11
+        text: "Verify that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: false
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.12
+        text: "Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --tls-cipher-suites
+              path: '{range .tlsCipherSuites[:]}{}{'',''}{end}'
+              compare:
+                op: valid_elements
+                value: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set `TLSCipherSuites` to
+          TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          or to a subset of these values.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the --tls-cipher-suites parameter as follows, or to a subset of these values.
+          --tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.13
+        text: "Ensure that a limit is set on pod PIDs (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --pod-max-pids
+              path: '{.podPidsLimit}'
+        remediation: |
+          Decide on an appropriate level for this parameter and set it,
+          either via the --pod-max-pids command line parameter or the PodPidsLimit configuration file setting.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.3
+    text: "kube-proxy"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kube-proxy metrics service is bound to localhost (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $proxybin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/sh -c 'if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then cat $proxykubeconfig; fi'"
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--metrics-bind-address"
+              path: '{.metricsBindAddress}'
+              compare:
+                op: has
+                value: "127.0.0.1"
+            - flag: "--metrics-bind-address"
+              path: '{.metricsBindAddress}'
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+           Modify or remove any values which bind the metrics service to a non-localhost address.
+           The default value is 127.0.0.1:10249.
+        scored: true

cfg/cis-1.9/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "cis-1.9"
+id: 5
+text: "Kubernetes Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          kubectl get clusterrolebindings -o=custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,ROLE:.roleRef.name,SUBJECT:.subjects[*].name --no-headers | while read -r role_name role_binding subject
+          do
+            if [[ "${role_name}" != "cluster-admin" && "${role_binding}" == "cluster-admin" ]]; then
+              is_compliant="false"
+            else
+              is_compliant="true"
+            fi;
+            echo "**role_name: ${role_name} role_binding: ${rolebinding} subject: ${subject} is_compliant: ${is_compliant}"
+          done
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "is_compliant"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role : kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+          Condition: is_compliant is false if rolename is not cluster-admin and rolebinding is cluster-admin.
+        scored: true
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Automated)"
+        audit: "echo \"canGetListWatchSecretsAsSystemAuthenticated: $(kubectl auth can-i get,list,watch secrets --all-namespaces --as=system:authenticated)\""
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "canGetListWatchSecretsAsSystemAuthenticated"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: no
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to Secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: true
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          # Check Roles
+          kubectl get roles --all-namespaces -o custom-columns=ROLE_NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace,ROLE_NAME:.metadata.name --no-headers | while read -r role_namespace role_name
+          do
+            role_rules=$(kubectl get role -n "${role_namespace}" "${role_name}" -o=json | jq -c '.rules')
+            if echo "${role_rules}" | grep -q "\[\"\*\"\]"; then
+              role_is_compliant="false"
+            else
+              role_is_compliant="true"
+            fi;
+            echo "**role_name: ${role_name} role_namespace: ${role_namespace} role_rules: ${role_rules} role_is_compliant: ${role_is_compliant}"
+          done
+
+          # Check ClusterRoles
+          kubectl get clusterroles -o custom-columns=CLUSTERROLE_NAME:.metadata.name --no-headers | while read -r clusterrole_name
+          do
+            clusterrole_rules=$(kubectl get clusterrole "${clusterrole_name}" -o=json | jq -c '.rules')
+            if echo "${clusterrole_rules}" | grep -q "\[\"\*\"\]"; then
+              clusterrole_is_compliant="false"
+            else
+              clusterrole_is_compliant="true"
+            fi;
+          echo "**clusterrole_name: ${clusterrole_name} clusterrole_rules: ${clusterrole_rules} clusterrole_is_compliant: ${clusterrole_is_compliant}"
+          done
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          bin_op: or
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "role_is_compliant"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+              set: true
+            - flag: "clusterrole_is_compliant"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards ["*"] in roles and clusterroles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+          Condition: role_is_compliant is false if ["*"] is found in rules.
+          Condition: clusterrole_is_compliant is false if ["*"] is found in rules.
+        scored: true
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          echo "canCreatePodsAsSystemAuthenticated: $(kubectl auth can-i create pods --all-namespaces --as=system:authenticated)"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "canCreatePodsAsSystemAuthenticated"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: no
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: true
+      - id: 5.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          kubectl get serviceaccount --all-namespaces --field-selector metadata.name=default -o=json | jq -r '.items[] | " namespace: \(.metadata.namespace), kind: \(.kind), name: \(.metadata.name), automountServiceAccountToken: \(.automountServiceAccountToken | if . == null then "notset" else . end )"' | xargs -L 1
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "automountServiceAccountToken"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          `automountServiceAccountToken: false`.
+        scored: true
+      - id: 5.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Automated)"
+        audit: |
+          kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o custom-columns=POD_NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace,POD_NAME:.metadata.name,POD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT:.spec.serviceAccount,POD_IS_AUTOMOUNTSERVICEACCOUNTTOKEN:.spec.automountServiceAccountToken --no-headers | while read -r pod_namespace pod_name pod_service_account pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken
+          do
+            # Retrieve automountServiceAccountToken's value for ServiceAccount and Pod, set to notset if null or <none>.
+            svacc_is_automountserviceaccounttoken=$(kubectl get serviceaccount -n ${pod_namespace} ${pod_service_account} -o json | jq -r '.automountServiceAccountToken' | sed -e 's/<none>/notset/g' -e 's/null/notset/g')
+            pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken=$(echo ${pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken} | sed -e 's/<none>/notset/g' -e 's/null/notset/g')
+            if [[ "${svacc_is_automountserviceaccounttoken}" == "false" && ( "${pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken}" == "false" || "${pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken}" == "notset" ) ]]; then
+              is_compliant="true"
+            elif [[ "${svacc_is_automountserviceaccounttoken}" == "true" && "${pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken}" == "false" ]]; then
+              is_compliant="true"
+            else
+              is_compliant="false"
+            fi
+            echo "**namespace: ${pod_namespace} pod_name: ${pod_name} service_account: ${pod_service_account} pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken: ${pod_is_automountserviceaccounttoken} svacc_is_automountServiceAccountToken: ${svacc_is_automountserviceaccounttoken} is_compliant: ${is_compliant}"
+          done
+        use_multiple_values: true
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "is_compliant"
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of ServiceAccounts and Pods which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it, with `automountServiceAccountToken: false`.
+          If both the ServiceAccount and the Pod's .spec specify a value for automountServiceAccountToken, the Pod spec takes precedence.
+          Condition: Pod is_compliant to true when
+            - ServiceAccount is automountServiceAccountToken: false and Pod is automountServiceAccountToken: false or notset
+            - ServiceAccount is automountServiceAccountToken: true notset and Pod is automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: true
+      - id: 5.1.7
+        text: "Avoid use of system:masters group (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Remove the system:masters group from all users in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.1.8
+        text: "Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove the impersonate, bind and escalate rights from subjects.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.1.9
+        text: "Minimize access to create persistent volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to PersistentVolume objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.1.10
+        text: "Minimize access to the proxy sub-resource of nodes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the proxy sub-resource of node objects.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.1.11
+        text: "Minimize access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequests objects (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the approval sub-resource of certificatesigningrequest objects.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.1.12
+        text: "Minimize access to webhook configuration objects (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the validatingwebhookconfigurations or mutatingwebhookconfigurations objects
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.1.13
+        text: "Minimize access to the service account token creation (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove access to the token sub-resource of serviceaccount objects.
+        scored: false
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Pod Security Standards"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster has at least one active policy control mechanism in place (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that either Pod Security Admission or an external policy control system is in place
+          for every namespace which contains user workloads.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of privileged containers.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostPID` containers.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostIPC` containers.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of `hostNetwork` containers.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `.spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a policy for each namespace in the cluster, ensuring that either `MustRunAsNonRoot`
+          or `MustRunAs` with the range of UIDs not including 0, is set.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with the `NET_RAW` capability.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that `allowedCapabilities` is not present in policies for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.10
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilites in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applicaions which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.11
+        text: "Minimize the admission of Windows HostProcess containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers that have `.securityContext.windowsOptions.hostProcess` set to `true`.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.12
+        text: "Minimize the admission of HostPath volumes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers with `hostPath` volumes.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.2.13
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers which use HostPorts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Add policies to each namespace in the cluster which has user workloads to restrict the
+          admission of containers which use `hostPort` sections.
+        scored: false
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "Network Policies and CNI"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the CNI in use supports NetworkPolicies (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If the CNI plugin in use does not support network policies, consideration should be given to
+          making use of a different plugin, or finding an alternate mechanism for restricting traffic
+          in the Kubernetes cluster.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have NetworkPolicies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using Secrets as files over Secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read Secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the Secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+  - id: 5.7
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.7.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.7.2
+        text: "Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your Pod definitions (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Use `securityContext` to enable the docker/default seccomp profile in your pod definitions.
+          An example is as below:
+            securityContext:
+              seccompProfile:
+                type: RuntimeDefault
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.7.3
+        text: "Apply SecurityContext to your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply SecurityContexts to your Pods. For a
+          suggested list of SecurityContexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+      - id: 5.7.4
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/config.yaml

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ master:
     - flanneld
     # kubernetes is a component to cover the config file /etc/kubernetes/config that is referred to in the benchmark
     - kubernetes
+    - kubelet
 
   kubernetes:
     defaultconf: /etc/kubernetes/config
@@ -25,12 +26,17 @@ master:
       - "hyperkube apiserver"
       - "hyperkube kube-apiserver"
       - "apiserver"
+      - "openshift start master api"
+      - "hypershift openshift-kube-apiserver"
     confs:
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.manifest
       - /var/snap/kube-apiserver/current/args
       - /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/kube-apiserver
+      - /etc/origin/master/master-config.yaml
+      - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/talos-kube-apiserver.yaml
+      - /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/pod-manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
     defaultconf: /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
 
   scheduler:
@@ -39,13 +45,23 @@ master:
       - "hyperkube scheduler"
       - "hyperkube kube-scheduler"
       - "scheduler"
+      - "openshift start master controllers"
     confs:
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.manifest
       - /var/snap/kube-scheduler/current/args
       - /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/kube-scheduler
+      - /etc/origin/master/scheduler.json
+      - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/talos-kube-scheduler.yaml
+      - /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/pod-manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml
     defaultconf: /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml
+    kubeconfig:
+      - /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
+      - /var/lib/kube-scheduler/kubeconfig
+      - /var/lib/kube-scheduler/config.yaml
+      - /system/secrets/kubernetes/kube-scheduler/kubeconfig
+    defaultkubeconfig: /etc/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
 
   controllermanager:
     bins:
@@ -54,18 +70,32 @@ master:
       - "hyperkube controller-manager"
       - "hyperkube kube-controller-manager"
       - "controller-manager"
+      - "openshift start master controllers"
+      - "hypershift openshift-controller-manager"
     confs:
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-controller-manager.yaml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-controller-manager.yml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-controller-manager.manifest
       - /var/snap/kube-controller-manager/current/args
       - /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/kube-controller-manager
+      - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/talos-kube-controller-manager.yaml
+      - /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/pod-manifests/kube-controller-manager.yaml
     defaultconf: /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-controller-manager.yaml
+    kubeconfig:
+      - /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf
+      - /var/lib/kube-controller-manager/kubeconfig
+      - /system/secrets/kubernetes/kube-controller-manager/kubeconfig
+    defaultkubeconfig: /etc/kubernetes/controller-manager.conf
 
   etcd:
     optional: true
     bins:
       - "etcd"
+      - "openshift start etcd"
+    datadirs:
+      - /var/lib/etcd/default.etcd
+      - /var/lib/etcd/data.etcd
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd
     confs:
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yml
@@ -74,7 +104,11 @@ master:
       - /var/snap/etcd/common/etcd.conf.yml
       - /var/snap/etcd/common/etcd.conf.yaml
       - /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/etcd
+      - /usr/lib/systemd/system/etcd.service
+      - /var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/db/etcd/config
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd/config
     defaultconf: /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+    defaultdatadir: /var/lib/etcd/default.etcd
 
   flanneld:
     optional: true
@@ -82,6 +116,12 @@ master:
       - flanneld
     defaultconf: /etc/sysconfig/flanneld
 
+  kubelet:
+    optional: true
+    bins:
+      - "hyperkube kubelet"
+      - "kubelet"
+
 node:
   components:
     - kubelet
@@ -98,6 +138,9 @@ node:
       - "/etc/kubernetes/certs/ca.crt"
       - "/etc/kubernetes/cert/ca.pem"
       - "/var/snap/microk8s/current/certs/ca.crt"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/server.crt"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/client-ca.crt"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/client-ca.crt"
     svc:
       # These paths must also be included
       #  in the 'confs' property below
@@ -106,20 +149,32 @@ node:
       - "/lib/systemd/system/kubelet.service"
       - "/etc/systemd/system/snap.kubelet.daemon.service"
       - "/etc/systemd/system/snap.microk8s.daemon-kubelet.service"
+      - "/etc/systemd/system/atomic-openshift-node.service"
+      - "/etc/systemd/system/origin-node.service"
     bins:
       - "hyperkube kubelet"
       - "kubelet"
     kubeconfig:
       - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-kubeconfig.conf"
       - "/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig"
       - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-kubeconfig"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubeconfig"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/ssl/kubecfg-kube-node.yaml"
       - "/var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/kubelet.config"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig-kubelet"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/kubelet.kubeconfig"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/cred/admin.kubeconfig"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/kubelet.kubeconfig"
     confs:
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-config.yaml"
       - "/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml"
       - "/var/lib/kubelet/config.yml"
       - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/config"
       - "/home/kubernetes/kubelet-config.yaml"
       - "/home/kubernetes/kubelet-config.yml"
+      - "/etc/default/kubeletconfig.json"
       - "/etc/default/kubelet"
       - "/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig"
       - "/var/snap/kubelet/current/args"
@@ -134,6 +189,9 @@ node:
       - "/lib/systemd/system/kubelet.service"
       - "/etc/systemd/system/snap.kubelet.daemon.service"
       - "/etc/systemd/system/snap.microk8s.daemon-kubelet.service"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.yaml"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/kubelet.kubeconfig"
+
     defaultconf: "/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml"
     defaultsvc: "/etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf"
     defaultkubeconfig: "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf"
@@ -146,6 +204,7 @@ node:
       - "hyperkube proxy"
       - "hyperkube kube-proxy"
       - "proxy"
+      - "openshift start network"
     confs:
       - /etc/kubernetes/proxy
       - /etc/kubernetes/addons/kube-proxy-daemonset.yaml
@@ -154,8 +213,13 @@ node:
       - /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/kube-proxy
     kubeconfig:
       - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-kubeconfig"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet-kubeconfig.conf"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/config"
+      - "/etc/kubernetes/ssl/kubecfg-kube-proxy.yaml"
       - "/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig"
       - "/var/snap/microk8s/current/credentials/proxy.config"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/kubeproxy.kubeconfig"
+      - "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/kubeproxy.kubeconfig"
     svc:
       - "/lib/systemd/system/kube-proxy.service"
       - "/etc/systemd/system/snap.microk8s.daemon-proxy.service"
@@ -169,6 +233,10 @@ etcd:
   etcd:
     bins:
       - "etcd"
+    datadirs:
+      - /var/lib/etcd/default.etcd
+      - /var/lib/etcd/data.etcd
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd
     confs:
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
       - /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yml
@@ -177,10 +245,22 @@ etcd:
       - /var/snap/etcd/common/etcd.conf.yml
       - /var/snap/etcd/common/etcd.conf.yaml
       - /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/etcd
+      - /usr/lib/systemd/system/etcd.service
+      - /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/pod-manifests/etcd.yaml
+      - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/db/etcd/config
     defaultconf: /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml
+    defaultdatadir: /var/lib/etcd/default.etcd
 
 controlplane:
-  components: []
+  components:
+    - apiserver
+
+  apiserver:
+    bins:
+      - "kube-apiserver"
+      - "hyperkube apiserver"
+      - "hyperkube kube-apiserver"
+      - "apiserver"
 
 policies:
   components: []
@@ -193,11 +273,39 @@ version_mapping:
   "1.16": "cis-1.6"
   "1.17": "cis-1.6"
   "1.18": "cis-1.6"
-  "1.19": "cis-1.6"
-  "eks-1.0": "eks-1.0"
+  "1.19": "cis-1.20"
+  "1.20": "cis-1.20"
+  "1.21": "cis-1.20"
+  "1.22": "cis-1.23"
+  "1.23": "cis-1.23"
+  "1.24": "cis-1.24"
+  "1.25": "cis-1.7"
+  "1.26": "cis-1.8"
+  "1.27": "cis-1.9"
+  "1.28": "cis-1.9"
+  "1.29": "cis-1.9"
+  "eks-1.0.1": "eks-1.0.1"
+  "eks-1.1.0": "eks-1.1.0"
+  "eks-1.2.0": "eks-1.2.0"
   "gke-1.0": "gke-1.0"
+  "gke-1.2.0": "gke-1.2.0"
   "ocp-3.10": "rh-0.7"
   "ocp-3.11": "rh-0.7"
+  "ocp-4.0": "rh-1.0"
+  "aks-1.0": "aks-1.0"
+  "ack-1.0": "ack-1.0"
+  "cis-1.6-k3s": "cis-1.6-k3s"
+  "cis-1.24-microk8s": "cis-1.24-microk8s"
+  "tkgi-1.2.53": "tkgi-1.2.53"
+  "k3s-cis-1.7": "k3s-cis-1.7"
+  "k3s-cis-1.23": "k3s-cis-1.23"
+  "k3s-cis-1.24": "k3s-cis-1.24"
+  "rke-cis-1.7": "rke-cis-1.7"
+  "rke-cis-1.23": "rke-cis-1.23"
+  "rke-cis-1.24": "rke-cis-1.24"
+  "rke2-cis-1.7": "rke2-cis-1.7"
+  "rke2-cis-1.23": "rke2-cis-1.23"
+  "rke2-cis-1.24": "rke2-cis-1.24"
 
 target_mapping:
   "cis-1.5":
@@ -212,6 +320,54 @@ target_mapping:
     - "controlplane"
     - "etcd"
     - "policies"
+  "cis-1.6-k3s":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.20":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.23":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.24":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.24-microk8s":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.7":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.8":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+  "cis-1.9":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
   "gke-1.0":
     - "master"
     - "node"
@@ -219,7 +375,25 @@ target_mapping:
     - "etcd"
     - "policies"
     - "managedservices"
-  "eks-1.0":
+  "gke-1.2.0":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+    - "managedservices"
+  "eks-1.0.1":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+    - "managedservices"
+  "eks-1.1.0":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+    - "managedservices"
+  "eks-1.2.0":
     - "master"
     - "node"
     - "controlplane"
@@ -228,3 +402,87 @@ target_mapping:
   "rh-0.7":
     - "master"
     - "node"
+  "aks-1.0":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+    - "managedservices"
+  "ack-1.0":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "policies"
+    - "managedservices"
+  "rh-1.0":
+    - "master"
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+    - "etcd"
+  "eks-stig-kubernetes-v1r6":
+    - "node"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "policies"
+    - "managedservices"
+  "tkgi-1.2.53":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "k3s-cis-1.7":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "k3s-cis-1.23":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "k3s-cis-1.24":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "rke-cis-1.7":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "rke-cis-1.23":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "rke-cis-1.24":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "rke2-cis-1.7":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "rke2-cis-1.23":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"
+  "rke2-cis-1.24":
+    - "master"
+    - "etcd"
+    - "controlplane"
+    - "node"
+    - "policies"

cfg/eks-1.0.1/config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml
+## These settings are required if you are using the --asff option to report findings to AWS Security Hub
+## AWS account number is required.
+AWS_ACCOUNT: "<AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>"
+## AWS region is required.
+AWS_REGION: "<AWS_REGION>"
+## EKS Cluster ARN is required.
+CLUSTER_ARN: "<AWS_CLUSTER_ARN>"

cfg/eks-1.0.1/controlplane.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: "eks-1.0"
+version: "eks-1.0.1"
 id: 2
 text: "Control Plane Configuration"
 type: "controlplane"
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ groups:
     text: "Logging"
     checks:
       - id: 2.1.1
-        text: "Enable audit logs"
+        text: "Enable audit logs (Manual)"
         remediation: "Enable control plane logging for API Server, Audit, Authenticator, Controller Manager, and Scheduler."
         scored: false

cfg/eks-1.0.1/managedservices.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: "eks-1.0"
+version: "eks-1.0.1"
 id: 5
 text: "Managed Services"
 type: "managedservices"
@@ -9,78 +9,78 @@ groups:
     text: "Image Registry and Image Scanning"
     checks:
       - id: 5.1.1
-        text: "Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using Amazon ECR image scanning or a third-party provider (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using Amazon ECR image scanning or a third-party provider (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.1.2
-        text: "Minimize user access to Amazon ECR (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Minimize user access to Amazon ECR (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.1.3
-        text: "Minimize cluster access to read-only for Amazon ECR (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Minimize cluster access to read-only for Amazon ECR (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.1.4
-        text: "Minimize Container Registries to only those approved (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Minimize Container Registries to only those approved (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
   - id: 5.2
     text: "Identity and Access Management (IAM)"
     checks:
       - id: 5.2.1
-        text: "Prefer using dedicated Amazon EKS Service Accounts (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Prefer using dedicated Amazon EKS Service Accounts (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
   - id: 5.3
-    text: "AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)"
+    text: "AWS Key Management Service (KMS)"
     checks:
       - id: 5.3.1
-        text: "Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted using Customer Master Keys (CMKs) managed in AWS KMS (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted using Customer Master Keys (CMKs) managed in AWS KMS (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
   - id: 5.4
     text: "Cluster Networking"
     checks:
       - id: 5.4.1
-        text: "Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.4.2
-        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.4.3
-        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.4.4
-        text: "Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
       - id: 5.4.5
-        text: "Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
 
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ groups:
     text: "Authentication and Authorization"
     checks:
       - id: 5.5.1
-        text: "Manage Kubernetes RBAC users with AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Manage Kubernetes RBAC users with AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false
 
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ groups:
     text: "Other Cluster Configurations"
     checks:
       - id: 5.6.1
-        text: "Consider Fargate for running untrusted workloads (Not Scored)"
+        text: "Consider Fargate for running untrusted workloads (Manual)"
         type: "manual"
-        remediation:
+        remediation: "No remediation"
         scored: false

cfg/eks-1.0.1/master.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.0.1"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Components"
+type: "master"

cfg/eks-1.0.1/node.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 controls:
-version: "eks-1.0"
+version: "eks-1.0.1"
 id: 3
 text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
 type: "node"
@@ -9,127 +9,62 @@ groups:
     text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
     checks:
       - id: 3.1.1
-        text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)"
-        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %a $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        text: "Ensure that the kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
         tests:
           test_items:
-            - flag: "644"
+            - flag: "permissions"
               compare:
-                op: eq
+                op: bitmask
                 value: "644"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "640"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "640"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "600"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "600"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "444"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "444"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "440"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "440"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "400"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "400"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "000"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "000"
-              set: true
-          bin_op: or
         remediation: |
-          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on each worker node.
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
           For example,
-          chmod 644 $proxykubeconfig
-        scored: true
+          chmod 644 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.1.2
-        text: "Ensure that the proxy kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
-        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $proxykubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $proxykubeconfig; fi'' '
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: root:root
-              set: true
         remediation: |
-          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on each worker node.
-          For example, chown root:root $proxykubeconfig
-        scored: true
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.1.3
-        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Scored)"
-        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
         tests:
           test_items:
-            - flag: "644"
-              set: true
+            - flag: "permissions"
               compare:
-                op: eq
+                op: bitmask
                 value: "644"
-            - flag: "640"
-              set: true
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "640"
-            - flag: "600"
-              set: true
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "600"
-            - flag: "444"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "444"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "440"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "440"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "400"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "400"
-              set: true
-            - flag: "000"
-              compare:
-                op: eq
-                value: "000"
-              set: true
-          bin_op: or
         remediation: |
-          Run the following command (using the config file location identied in the Audit step)
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
           chmod 644 $kubeletconf
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.1.4
-        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
         audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
         tests:
           test_items:
             - flag: root:root
-              set: true
         remediation: |
-          Run the following command (using the config file location identied in the Audit step)
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
           chown root:root $kubeletconf
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
   - id: 3.2
     text: "Kubelet"
     checks:
       - id: 3.2.1
-        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -153,7 +88,7 @@ groups:
         scored: true
 
       - id: 3.2.2
-        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -176,7 +111,7 @@ groups:
         scored: true
 
       - id: 3.2.3
-        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -194,10 +129,10 @@ groups:
           Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
           systemctl daemon-reload
           systemctl restart kubelet.service
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.2.4
-        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -217,10 +152,10 @@ groups:
           Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
           systemctl daemon-reload
           systemctl restart kubelet.service
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.2.5
-        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -245,10 +180,10 @@ groups:
           Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
           systemctl daemon-reload
           systemctl restart kubelet.service
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.2.6
-        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -271,7 +206,7 @@ groups:
         scored: true
 
       - id: 3.2.7
-        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Scored) "
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated) "
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -298,7 +233,7 @@ groups:
         scored: true
 
       - id: 3.2.8
-        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
         # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
         # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
         # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
@@ -314,10 +249,10 @@ groups:
           Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
           systemctl daemon-reload
           systemctl restart kubelet.service
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.2.9
-        text: "Ensure that the --event-qps argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --eventRecordQPS argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Automated)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -339,7 +274,7 @@ groups:
         scored: false
 
       - id: 3.2.10
-        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Manual)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -364,10 +299,10 @@ groups:
           Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
           systemctl daemon-reload
           systemctl restart kubelet.service
-        scored: true
+        scored: false
 
       - id: 3.2.11
-        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Scored)"
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
         audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
         audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
         tests:
@@ -385,4 +320,4 @@ groups:
           Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
           systemctl daemon-reload
           systemctl restart kubelet.service
-        scored: true
+        scored: false

cfg/eks-1.0.1/policies.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.0.1"
+id: 4
+text: "Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Pod Security Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that
+          the .spec.privileged field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostPID field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostIPC field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostNetwork field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.runAsUser.rule is set to either MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with the range of
+          UIDs not including 0.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.requiredDropCapabilities is set to include either NET_RAW or ALL.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that allowedCapabilities is not present in PSPs for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilities in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applications which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.3
+    text: "CNI Plugin"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the latest CNI version is used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the documentation of AWS CNI plugin, and ensure latest CNI version is used.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.5.1
+        text: "Configure Image Provenance using ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and setup image provenance.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.6
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.6.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.6.2
+        text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
+          suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.6.3
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/eks-1.1.0/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml
+## These settings are required if you are using the --asff option to report findings to AWS Security Hub
+## AWS account number is required.
+AWS_ACCOUNT: "<AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>"
+## AWS region is required.
+AWS_REGION: "<AWS_REGION>"
+## EKS Cluster ARN is required.
+CLUSTER_ARN: "<AWS_CLUSTER_ARN>"

cfg/eks-1.1.0/controlplane.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.1.0"
+id: 2
+text: "Control Plane Configuration"
+type: "controlplane"
+groups:
+  - id: 2.1
+    text: "Logging"
+    checks:
+      - id: 2.1.1
+        text: "Enable audit logs (Manual)"
+        remediation: "Enable control plane logging for API Server, Audit, Authenticator, Controller Manager, and Scheduler."
+        scored: false

cfg/eks-1.1.0/managedservices.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.1.0"
+id: 5
+text: "Managed Services"
+type: "managedservices"
+groups:
+  - id: 5.1
+    text: "Image Registry and Image Scanning"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.1.1
+        text: "Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning using Amazon ECR image scanning or a third-party provider (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          To utilize AWS ECR for Image scanning please follow the steps below:
+
+          To create a repository configured for scan on push (AWS CLI):
+          aws ecr create-repository --repository-name $REPO_NAME --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true --region $REGION_CODE
+
+          To edit the settings of an existing repository (AWS CLI):
+          aws ecr put-image-scanning-configuration --repository-name $REPO_NAME --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true --region $REGION_CODE
+
+          Use the following steps to start a manual image scan using the AWS Management Console.
+              Open the Amazon ECR console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecr/repositories.
+              From the navigation bar, choose the Region to create your repository in.
+              In the navigation pane, choose Repositories.
+              On the Repositories page, choose the repository that contains the image to scan.
+              On the Images page, select the image to scan and then choose Scan.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.2
+        text: "Minimize user access to Amazon ECR (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Before you use IAM to manage access to Amazon ECR, you should understand what IAM features
+          are available to use with Amazon ECR. To get a high-level view of how Amazon ECR and other
+          AWS services work with IAM, see AWS Services That Work with IAM in the IAM User Guide.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.3
+        text: "Minimize cluster access to read-only for Amazon ECR (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          You can use your Amazon ECR images with Amazon EKS, but you need to satisfy the following prerequisites.
+
+          The Amazon EKS worker node IAM role (NodeInstanceRole) that you use with your worker nodes must possess
+          the following IAM policy permissions for Amazon ECR.
+
+          {
+              "Version": "2012-10-17",
+              "Statement": [
+                  {
+                      "Effect": "Allow",
+                      "Action": [
+                          "ecr:BatchCheckLayerAvailability",
+                          "ecr:BatchGetImage",
+                          "ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer",
+                          "ecr:GetAuthorizationToken"
+                      ],
+                      "Resource": "*"
+                  }
+              ]
+          }
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.1.4
+        text: "Minimize Container Registries to only those approved (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.2
+    text: "Identity and Access Management (IAM)"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.2.1
+        text: "Prefer using dedicated Amazon EKS Service Accounts (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.3
+    text: "AWS Key Management Service (KMS)"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.3.1
+        text: "Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are encrypted using Customer Master Keys (CMKs) managed in AWS KMS (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          This process can only be performed during Cluster Creation.
+
+          Enable 'Secrets Encryption' during Amazon EKS cluster creation as described
+          in the links within the 'References' section.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 5.4
+    text: "Cluster Networking"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.4.1
+        text: "Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.2
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Endpoint Enabled and Public Access Disabled (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.3
+        text: "Ensure clusters are created with Private Nodes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.4
+        text: "Ensure Network Policy is Enabled and set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 5.4.5
+        text: "Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers with TLS certificates (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false
+
+
+  - id: 5.5
+    text: "Authentication and Authorization"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.5.1
+        text: "Manage Kubernetes RBAC users with AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the 'Managing users or IAM roles for your cluster' in Amazon EKS documentation.
+        scored: false
+
+
+  - id: 5.6
+    text: "Other Cluster Configurations"
+    checks:
+      - id: 5.6.1
+        text: "Consider Fargate for running untrusted workloads (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a Fargate profile for your cluster Before you can schedule pods running on Fargate
+          in your cluster, you must define a Fargate profile that specifies which pods should use
+          Fargate when they are launched. For more information, see AWS Fargate profile.
+
+          Note: If you created your cluster with eksctl using the --fargate option, then a Fargate profile has
+          already been created for your cluster with selectors for all pods in the kube-system
+          and default namespaces. Use the following procedure to create Fargate profiles for
+          any other namespaces you would like to use with Fargate.
+        scored: false

cfg/eks-1.1.0/master.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.1.0"
+id: 1
+text: "Control Plane Components"
+type: "master"

cfg/eks-1.1.0/node.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.1.0"
+id: 3
+text: "Worker Node Security Configuration"
+type: "node"
+groups:
+  - id: 3.1
+    text: "Worker Node Configuration Files"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the kubeconfig file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chmod 644 $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.1.2
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet kubeconfig file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletkubeconfig; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletkubeconfig; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the below command (based on the file location on your system) on the each worker node.
+          For example,
+          chown root:root $kubeletkubeconfig
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.1.3
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file has permissions set to 644 or more restrictive (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c permissions=%a $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "permissions"
+              compare:
+                op: bitmask
+                value: "644"
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chmod 644 $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.1.4
+        text: "Ensure that the kubelet configuration file ownership is set to root:root (Manual)"
+        audit: '/bin/sh -c ''if test -e $kubeletconf; then stat -c %U:%G $kubeletconf; fi'' '
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: root:root
+        remediation: |
+          Run the following command (using the config file location identified in the Audit step)
+          chown root:root $kubeletconf
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 3.2
+    text: "Kubelet"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.2.1
+        text: "Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--anonymous-auth"
+              path: '{.authentication.anonymous.enabled}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: false
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: anonymous: enabled to
+          false.
+          If using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --anonymous-auth=false
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 3.2.2
+        text: "Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --authorization-mode
+              path: '{.authorization.mode}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: nothave
+                value: AlwaysAllow
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authorization: mode to Webhook. If
+          using executable arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --authorization-mode=Webhook
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 3.2.3
+        text: "Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --client-ca-file
+              path: '{.authentication.x509.clientCAFile}'
+              set: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set authentication: x509: clientCAFile to
+          the location of the client CA file.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_AUTHZ_ARGS variable.
+          --client-ca-file=<path/to/client-ca-file>
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.4
+        text: "Ensure that the --read-only-port argument is set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: "--read-only-port"
+              path: '{.readOnlyPort}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set readOnlyPort to 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --read-only-port=0
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.5
+        text: "Ensure that the --streaming-connection-idle-timeout argument is not set to 0 (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: noteq
+                value: 0
+            - flag: --streaming-connection-idle-timeout
+              path: '{.streamingConnectionIdleTimeout}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set streamingConnectionIdleTimeout to a
+          value other than 0.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.6
+        text: "Ensure that the --protect-kernel-defaults argument is set to true (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --protect-kernel-defaults
+              path: '{.protectKernelDefaults}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set protectKernelDefaults: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          --protect-kernel-defaults=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 3.2.7
+        text: "Ensure that the --make-iptables-util-chains argument is set to true (Automated) "
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --make-iptables-util-chains
+              path: '{.makeIPTablesUtilChains}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set makeIPTablesUtilChains: true.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove the --make-iptables-util-chains argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: true
+
+      - id: 3.2.8
+        text: "Ensure that the --hostname-override argument is not set (Manual)"
+        # This is one of those properties that can only be set as a command line argument.
+        # To check if the property is set as expected, we need to parse the kubelet command
+        # instead reading the Kubelet Configuration file.
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin "
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --hostname-override
+              set: false
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and remove the --hostname-override argument from the
+          KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.9
+        text: "Ensure that the --eventRecordQPS argument is set to 0 or a level which ensures appropriate event capture (Automated)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --event-qps
+              path: '{.eventRecordQPS}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: 0
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to set eventRecordQPS: to an appropriate level.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          set the below parameter in KUBELET_SYSTEM_PODS_ARGS variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.10
+        text: "Ensure that the --rotate-certificates argument is not set to false (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+            - flag: --rotate-certificates
+              path: '{.rotateCertificates}'
+              set: false
+          bin_op: or
+        remediation: |
+          If using a Kubelet config file, edit the file to add the line rotateCertificates: true or
+          remove it altogether to use the default value.
+          If using command line arguments, edit the kubelet service file
+          $kubeletsvc on each worker node and
+          remove --rotate-certificates=false argument from the KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS
+          variable.
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 3.2.11
+        text: "Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Manual)"
+        audit: "/bin/ps -fC $kubeletbin"
+        audit_config: "/bin/cat $kubeletconf"
+        tests:
+          test_items:
+            - flag: RotateKubeletServerCertificate
+              path: '{.featureGates.RotateKubeletServerCertificate}'
+              set: true
+              compare:
+                op: eq
+                value: true
+        remediation: |
+          Edit the kubelet service file $kubeletsvc
+          on each worker node and set the below parameter in KUBELET_CERTIFICATE_ARGS variable.
+          --feature-gates=RotateKubeletServerCertificate=true
+          Based on your system, restart the kubelet service. For example:
+          systemctl daemon-reload
+          systemctl restart kubelet.service
+        scored: false
+  - id: 3.3
+    text: "Container Optimized OS"
+    checks:
+      - id: 3.3.1
+        text: "Prefer using Container-Optimized OS when possible (Manual)"
+        remediation: "No remediation"
+        scored: false

cfg/eks-1.1.0/policies.yaml

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+---
+controls:
+version: "eks-1.1.0"
+id: 4
+text: "Policies"
+type: "policies"
+groups:
+  - id: 4.1
+    text: "RBAC and Service Accounts"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.1.1
+        text: "Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Identify all clusterrolebindings to the cluster-admin role. Check if they are used and
+          if they need this role or if they could use a role with fewer privileges.
+          Where possible, first bind users to a lower privileged role and then remove the
+          clusterrolebinding to the cluster-admin role :
+          kubectl delete clusterrolebinding [name]
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.2
+        text: "Minimize access to secrets (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove get, list and watch access to secret objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.3
+        text: "Minimize wildcard use in Roles and ClusterRoles (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible replace any use of wildcards in clusterroles and roles with specific
+          objects or actions.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.4
+        text: "Minimize access to create pods (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Where possible, remove create access to pod objects in the cluster.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.5
+        text: "Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create explicit service accounts wherever a Kubernetes workload requires specific access
+          to the Kubernetes API server.
+          Modify the configuration of each default service account to include this value
+          automountServiceAccountToken: false
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.1.6
+        text: "Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Modify the definition of pods and service accounts which do not need to mount service
+          account tokens to disable it.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.2
+    text: "Pod Security Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.2.1
+        text: "Minimize the admission of privileged containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that
+          the .spec.privileged field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.2
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host process ID namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostPID field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.3
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostIPC field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.4
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host network namespace (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.hostNetwork field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.5
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.allowPrivilegeEscalation field is omitted or set to false.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.6
+        text: "Minimize the admission of root containers (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.runAsUser.rule is set to either MustRunAsNonRoot or MustRunAs with the range of
+          UIDs not including 0.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.7
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability (Automated)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Create a PSP as described in the Kubernetes documentation, ensuring that the
+          .spec.requiredDropCapabilities is set to include either NET_RAW or ALL.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.8
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that allowedCapabilities is not present in PSPs for the cluster unless
+          it is set to an empty array.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.2.9
+        text: "Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the use of capabilities in applications running on your cluster. Where a namespace
+          contains applications which do not require any Linux capabities to operate consider adding
+          a PSP which forbids the admission of containers which do not drop all capabilities.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.3
+    text: "CNI Plugin"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.3.1
+        text: "Ensure that the latest CNI version is used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Review the documentation of AWS CNI plugin, and ensure latest CNI version is used.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.3.2
+        text: "Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create NetworkPolicy objects as you need them.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.4
+    text: "Secrets Management"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.4.1
+        text: "Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          If possible, rewrite application code to read secrets from mounted secret files, rather than
+          from environment variables.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.4.2
+        text: "Consider external secret storage (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Refer to the secrets management options offered by your cloud provider or a third-party
+          secrets management solution.
+        scored: false
+
+  - id: 4.5
+    text: "Extensible Admission Control"
+    checks: []
+
+  - id: 4.6
+    text: "General Policies"
+    checks:
+      - id: 4.6.1
+        text: "Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the documentation and create namespaces for objects in your deployment as you need
+          them.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.6.2
+        text: "Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Follow the Kubernetes documentation and apply security contexts to your pods. For a
+          suggested list of security contexts, you may refer to the CIS Security Benchmark for Docker
+          Containers.
+        scored: false
+
+      - id: 4.6.3
+        text: "The default namespace should not be used (Manual)"
+        type: "manual"
+        remediation: |
+          Ensure that namespaces are created to allow for appropriate segregation of Kubernetes
+          resources and that all new resources are created in a specific namespace.
+        scored: false

cfg/eks-1.2.0/config.yaml

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+---
+## Version-specific settings that override the values in cfg/config.yaml
+## These settings are required if you are using the --asff option to report findings to AWS Security Hub
+## AWS account number is required.
+AWS_ACCOUNT: "<AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>"
+## AWS region is required.
+AWS_REGION: "<AWS_REGION>"
+## EKS Cluster ARN is required.
+CLUSTER_ARN: "<AWS_CLUSTER_ARN>"