Title

Least privilege access and need to know must be required to access the container platform runtime. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The container platform runtime is used to instantiate containers. If this process is accessed by those persons who are not authorized, those containers offering services can be brought to a denial of service (DoS) situation, disabling a large number of services with a small change to the container platform. To limit this threat, it is important to limit access to the runtime to only those individuals with runtime duties.

Check Content

Review the container platform to determine if only those individuals with runtime duties have access to the container platform runtime. If users have access to the container platform runtime that do not have runtime duties, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the container platform to use least privilege and need to know when granting access to the container runtime. The fix ensures the proper roles and permissions are configured.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-233027r879530_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-233027

Group Title: SRG-APP-000033

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