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V-253534CAT II — Medium severitySV-253534r1043177_rule

Prisma Cloud Compute must use TCP ports above 1024.

Rule version CNTR-PC-000500 · STIG v2 · 2026-02-13

Discussion

Privileged ports are ports below 1024 that require system privileges for their use. If containers are able to use these ports, the container must be run as a privileged user. The container platform must stop containers that try to map to these ports directly. Allowing nonprivileged ports to be mapped to the container-privileged port is the allowable method when a certain port is needed. Prisma Cloud Compute default TCP ports are 8083 (Console UI and API) and 8084 (Console-to-Defender communication). To use TCP ports below 1024, the Console would have to be configured to use privileged ports.

Check

For Kubernetes deployment:

Query the ports used by the twistlock-console service: $ kubectl describe svc twistlock-console -n twistlock

If any port number is below 1024, this is a finding.

For Docker deployment:

Determine the name of the Console container: docker ps|grep console

For example, the Console container is: ad8b41a2fec9 ad8b41a2fec9 twistlock/private:console_22_01_840

Inspect the container's PortBindings: docker inspect ad8b41a2fec9|grep PortBindings -A 20

If the port is below 1024, this is a finding.

Fix

For Kubernetes deployment:

Edit the deployment.apps/twistlock-console.

Find the - name: TargetPorts below 1024.

Change to port number above 1024.

Save and exit the editing session. The Console will restart automatically.

For Docker deployment:

Modify the twistlock.cfg located in the extracted release tar directory.

Change any port assignment below 1024 to above 1024: MANAGEMENT_PORT_HTTP= MANAGEMENT_PORT_HTTPS=8083 COMMUNICATION_PORT=8084

Redeploy the Console using the twistlock.sh script in the extracted release tar directory: $ sudo ./twisltock.sh -sy onebox

Identifiers

Group ID
V-253534
Group title
SRG-APP-000142-CTR-000330
Rule ID
SV-253534r1043177_rule
Check ID
C-56986r840438_chk
Fix ID
F-56937r840439_fix