# Container Management Tool Security Control Catalog # Conforms to Gemara Layer 2 #ControlCatalog (layer-2.cue). # See control-catalog-guide.md for the full tutorial and this scenario. title: Container Management Tool Security Control Catalog metadata: id: SEC.SLAM.CM description: | Control catalog for container management tool security; mitigates threats from the SEC.SLAM.CM threat catalog. version: 1.0.0 author: id: example name: Example type: Human mapping-references: - id: SEC.SLAM.CM title: Container Management Tool Security Threat Catalog version: "1.0.0" url: https://example.org/catalogs/SEC.SLAM.CM-threats.yaml description: | Threat catalog for the same scope; provides threat IDs for threat-mappings. - id: CCC title: Common Cloud Controls Core version: v2025.10 url: https://github.com/finos/common-cloud-controls/releases description: | Foundational repository of reusable security controls, capabilities, and threat models maintained by FINOS. applicability-groups: - id: production title: Production description: | Production container workloads and clusters; controls apply to live environments where security posture is enforced. - id: all_deployments title: All Deployments description: | Requirements that apply whenever container images are built, pulled, or run— regardless of environment (dev, staging, production) or pipeline stage. - id: untrusted_networks title: Untrusted Networks description: | Applies when registry or image traffic traverses untrusted networks. - id: ci_cd title: CI/CD description: | Applies in continuous integration and deployment pipelines. groups: - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.FAM01 title: Image Integrity and Supply Chain description: | Controls that ensure container images are authentic, unmodified, and from trusted sources throughout retrieval and use. imports: controls: - reference-id: CCC entries: - reference-id: CCC.Core.CTL42 remarks: Image signing and verification controls: - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL01 title: Use Immutable Image References by Digest objective: | Require signature validation so that only legitimate, trusted images are accepted; then pin each image to an immutable digest (e.g., sha256) after the check so that what is used matches what was verified and TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) attacks are prevented. group: SEC.SLAM.CM.FAM01 assessment-requirements: - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL01.AR01 text: | The system MUST verify image signature before pull or run, then pin the image to a digest (e.g., sha256:...) after the check and use that digest for all subsequent use. applicability: ["all_deployments"] - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL01.AR02 text: | Configuration and policies MUST disallow or override use of tag-only references for production or sensitive workloads where supported. applicability: ["production"] threats: - reference-id: SEC.SLAM.CM entries: - reference-id: SEC.SLAM.CM.THR01 - reference-id: SEC.SLAM.CM.THR03 - reference-id: SEC.SLAM.CM.THR04 - reference-id: CCC entries: - reference-id: CCC.Core.TH14 - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL02 title: Require TLS/SSL with Certificate Pinning objective: | Mitigate MITM Container Image Interception by protecting registry traffic and verifying artifact integrity: use TLS/SSL with certificate pinning for all registry communication, use VPNs on untrusted networks to reduce interception risk, and verify artifact signatures or hashes so that tampered or redirected content is detected even if the channel is compromised. group: SEC.SLAM.CM.FAM01 state: Active assessment-requirements: - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL02.AR01 text: | The system MUST use TLS/SSL for all registry communication and MUST pin to the expected server certificate or public key (or certificate chain) for the registry. applicability: ["all_deployments"] state: Active - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL02.AR02 text: | On untrusted networks, the system or deployment pipeline MUST use a VPN or other trusted path for registry traffic, or MUST restrict image pulls to environments where the network is trusted. applicability: ["untrusted_networks", "ci_cd"] state: Active - id: SEC.SLAM.CM.CTL02.AR03 text: | The system MUST verify artifact signatures or hashes (e.g. signature verification, digest check) before use so that tampered or redirected artifacts are rejected. applicability: ["all_deployments"] state: Active threat-mappings: - reference-id: SEC.SLAM.CM entries: - reference-id: SEC.SLAM.CM.THR02 - reference-id: CCC entries: - reference-id: CCC.Core.TH02