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Unauthenticated etcd Service Detection

etcd-running-unauthenticated-port is a critical severity check in the devops category, written in shell. Its source is templates/devops/etcd/etcd-running-unauthenticated-port.sh in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects unauthenticated etcd services exposing sensitive cluster data

Field Value
Id etcd-running-unauthenticated-port
Severity critical
Language shell
Category devops
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version not recorded
Confidence 95
CVSS not recorded
Weakness CWE-306
Tags etcd, kubernetes, unauthenticated, key-value-store
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info etcd-running-unauthenticated-port

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.