Etcd Peer Client Certificate Authentication Set To False

• Query id: b7d0181d-0a9b-4611-9d1c-1ad4f0b620ff
• Query name: Etcd Peer Client Certificate Authentication Set To False
• Platform: Kubernetes
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Secret Management
• URL: Github

Description

When using etcd commands, the '--peer-client-cert-auth' flag should be set to true
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: app-etcd-deployment
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: app
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: app
        version: v1
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: database
      containers:
      - name: database
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/etcd:v3.2.18
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        command: ["etcd"]
        args: ["--peer-client-cert-auth=false"]
      nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/hostname: worker02  
    restartPolicy: OnFailure

Positive test num. 2 - yaml file

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: app-etcd-deployment
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: app
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: app
        version: v1
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: database
      containers:
      - name: database
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/etcd:v3.2.18
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        command: ["etcd"]
        args: []
      nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/hostname: worker02  
    restartPolicy: OnFailure

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: app-etcd-deployment
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: app
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: app
        version: v1
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: database
      containers:
      - name: database
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/etcd:v3.2.18
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        command: ["etcd"]
        args: ["--peer-client-cert-auth=true"]
      nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/hostname: worker02  
    restartPolicy: OnFailure