Weak TLS cipher suites

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Id: kubernetes-weak-tls-cipher-suites

Platform: Kubernetes

Severity: Medium

Category: Encryption

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Description

TLS connections should use strong cipher suites. Containers running kube-apiserver or kubelet should define the --tls-cipher-suites flag and restrict it to strong cipher suite names. The KubeletConfiguration tlsCipherSuites field should be present and contain only strong cipher suites.

Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: ["--tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: foo/bar
      command: ["kubelet"]
      args: ["--tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: foo/bar
      command: ["kubelet"]
      args: []
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

Non-Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: foo/bar
      command: ["kubelet"]
      args: ["--tls-cipher-suites=TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: gcr.io/google_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0
      command: ["kube-apiserver"]
      args: ["--tls-cipher-suites=TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
address: "192.168.0.8"
port: 20250
protectKernelDefaults: false
serializeImagePulls: false
tlsCertFile: "someFile.txt"
tlsPrivateKeyFile: "someFile.txt"
tlsCipherSuites: ["TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256","TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256"]
evictionHard:
    memory.available:  "200Mi"