Best practices

K8s etcd is not using client certificate access

Platform(s)
  • Non-platform specific

Compliance Frameworks
  • CCPA
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  • CPRA
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  • iso_27001_2022
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  • iso_27002_2022
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  • K8s CIS
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  • K8s OWASP Top 10
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  • Mitre ATT&CK
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  • NIST 800-171
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  • NIST 800-190
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  • NIST 800-53
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  • PDPA
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  • STIG K8s
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  • UK Cyber Essentials

Description

etcd is a highly-available key value store used by Kubernetes deployments for persistent storage of all of its REST API objects. These objects are sensitive in nature and should not be available to unauthenticated clients. You should enable the client authentication via valid certificates to secure the access to the etcd service, Orca has detected that etcd is not configured to accept valid client certificates to allow access.