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Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (API Server)

Ensure that the API server is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers.

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Risk Level: High
Cloud Entity: Pods
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.K8S.IAM.85
Covered by Spectral: No
Category: Compute

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KubernetesPod where labels contain [value='kube-apiserver'] and namespace = 'kube-system' should have spec.containers with [parsedArgs contain [key like 'tls-cipher-suites' and value split(',') contain-all [$ in ('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.

References:

  1. https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deployment-Best-Practices#23-use-secure-cipher-suites

Pods

Pods are the smallest deployable units of computing that can be created and managed in Kubernetes.A Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as Docker containers), with shared storage/network, and a specification for how to run the containers.

Compliance Frameworks

  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.24

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