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# The --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are not set appropriately misconfiguration detected

## Rule Details

|                        |                                       |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_K8S\_99                       |
| Category - Subcategory | Kubernetes - Native Security Controls |
| Provider               | OTHER                                 |
| Severity               | HIGH                                  |
| Framework              | Helm, Kubernetes, Kustomize           |

## Impact

etcd should be configured to make use of TLS encryption for client connections. 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 be protected by client authentication. This requires the API server to identify itself to the etcd server using a client certificate and key.

## How to Fix

## *Kind:* Pod \[source,go]

{ "apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: creationTimestamp: null labels: component: kube-apiserver tier: control-plane name: kube-apiserver namespace: kube-system spec: containers:

* command:
* kube-apiserver
* \--etcd-certfile=/path/to/cert
* \--etcd-keyfile=/path/to/key image: gcr.io/google\_containers/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.6.0 livenessProbe: failureThreshold: 8 httpGet: host: 127.0.0.1 path: /healthz port: 6443 scheme: HTTPS initialDelaySeconds: 15 timeoutSeconds: 15 name: kube-apiserver-should-pass resources: requests: cpu: 250m volumeMounts:
* mountPath: /etc/kubernetes/ name: k8s readOnly: true
* mountPath: /etc/ssl/certs name: certs
* mountPath: /etc/pki name: pki hostNetwork: true volumes:
* hostPath: path: /etc/kubernetes name: k8s
* hostPath: path: /etc/ssl/certs name: certs
* hostPath: path: /etc/pki name: pki ", }

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