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Ensure that the etcd data directory has permissions of 700 or more restrictive.

Risk Level

High

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

  • CIS Kubernetes

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Using Console

On the etcd server node, get the etcd data directory, passed as an argument —datadir, from the below command: ps -ef | grep etcd Run the below command (based on the etcd data directory found above). For example, stat -c %a /var/lib/etcd Verify that the permissions are 700 or more restrictive.

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