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The Kubernetes manifests must be owned by root.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-242405CNTR-K8-000860SV-242405r960960_ruleCCI-001499medium
Description
The manifest files contain the runtime configuration of the API server, proxy, scheduler, controller, and etcd. If an attacker can gain access to these files, changes can be made to open vulnerabilities and bypass user authorizations inherit within Kubernetes with RBAC implemented.
STIGDate
Kubernetes Security Technical Implementation Guide2025-05-16

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

CHG-04.5Library Privileges
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (56) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-3(7)Role-based Access Control
1.00
AC-4Information Flow Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(10)Prohibit Non-privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
1.00

+46 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001499
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-242405r960960_chk)

On the Control Plane, change to the /etc/kubernetes/manifest directory. Run the command: ls -l * Each manifest file must be owned by root:root. If any manifest file is not owned by root:root, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-45638r863813_fix)

On the Control Plane, change to the /etc/kubernetes/manifest directory. Run the command: chown root:root * To verify the change took place, run the command: ls -l * All the manifest files should be owned by root:root.