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Restrict sysctls in CEL expressions
Sysctls can disable security mechanisms or affect all containers on a host, and should be disallowed except for an allowed "safe" subset. A sysctl is considered safe if it is namespaced in the container or the Pod, and it is isolated from other Pods or processes on the same Node. This policy ensures that only those "safe" subsets can be specified in a Pod.
Policy Definition
/pod-security-cel/baseline/restrict-sysctls/restrict-sysctls.yaml
1apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1
2kind: ClusterPolicy
3metadata:
4 name: restrict-sysctls
5 annotations:
6 policies.kyverno.io/title: Restrict sysctls in CEL expressions
7 policies.kyverno.io/category: Pod Security Standards (Baseline) in CEL
8 policies.kyverno.io/severity: medium
9 policies.kyverno.io/subject: Pod
10 policies.kyverno.io/minversion: 1.11.0
11 kyverno.io/kyverno-version: 1.11.0
12 kyverno.io/kubernetes-version: "1.26-1.27"
13 policies.kyverno.io/description: >-
14 Sysctls can disable security mechanisms or affect all containers on a
15 host, and should be disallowed except for an allowed "safe" subset. A
16 sysctl is considered safe if it is namespaced in the container or the
17 Pod, and it is isolated from other Pods or processes on the same Node.
18 This policy ensures that only those "safe" subsets can be specified in
19 a Pod.
20spec:
21 validationFailureAction: Audit
22 background: true
23 rules:
24 - name: check-sysctls
25 match:
26 any:
27 - resources:
28 kinds:
29 - Pod
30 operations:
31 - CREATE
32 - UPDATE
33 validate:
34 cel:
35 variables:
36 - name: allowedSysctls
37 expression: "['kernel.shm_rmid_forced','net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range','net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start','net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies','net.ipv4.ping_group_range']"
38 expressions:
39 - expression: >-
40 object.spec.?securityContext.?sysctls.orValue([]).all(sysctl, sysctl == '' ||
41 has(sysctl.name) && sysctl.name in variables.allowedSysctls)
42 message: >-
43 Setting additional sysctls above the allowed type is disallowed.
44 The field spec.securityContext.sysctls must be unset or not use any other names
45 than kernel.shm_rmid_forced, net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range,
46 net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies and
47 net.ipv4.ping_group_range.