Etcd should have client authentication enabled

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Description

Client authentication should be enabled on the etcd service. You should enable the client authentication via valid certificates to secure the access to the etcd service. Etcd is a highly-available key value store used by Kubernetes deployments for persistent storage of REST API objects. These objects are sensitive in nature and should not be available to unauthenticated clients.

Remediation

Edit the etcd pod specification file /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml on the master node and set the following parameter:

--client-cert-auth=true