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Etcd Unauthenticated Access

etcd-think-path-wrong is a medium severity check in the devops category, written in yaml. Its source is templates/devops/etcd/etcd-think-path-wrong.yaml in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects unauthenticated etcd endpoints exposing cluster member information.

Field Value
Id etcd-think-path-wrong
Severity medium
Language yaml
Category devops
Author CERT-X-GEN
Template version not recorded
Confidence not recorded
CVSS not recorded
Weakness not recorded
Tags etcd, unauthenticated, database, key-value
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

The file declares http as well. Those are not tabled above; read the source for what they carry.

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-think-path-wrong

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.