Title

The container platform must implement organization-defined security safeguards to protect system CPU and memory from resource depletion and unauthorized code execution. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The execution of images within the container platform runtime must implement organizational defined security safeguards to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) and other possible attacks against the container image at runtime. Security safeguards employed to protect memory and CPU include, for example, data execution prevention and address space layout randomization. Data execution prevention safeguards can be software-enforced. Other means of protection are to limit memory and CPU resources to a container.

Check Content

Review the container platform configuration to determine if safeguards are in place to protect the system memory and CPU from resource depletion and unauthorized execution. If safeguards are not in place, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the container platform to have safeguards in place to protect the system memory and CPU from resource depletion and unauthorized code execution.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-233229r879821_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-233229

Group Title: SRG-APP-000450

Expert Comments

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