The container platform must implement organization-defined security safeguards to protect system CPU and memory from resource depletion and unauthorized code execution.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-233229
SRG-APP-000450-CTR-001105
SV-233229r961665_rule
Medium
Description
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.
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 (F-36133r601175_fix)
Configure the container platform to have safeguards in place to protect the system memory and CPU from resource depletion and unauthorized code execution.