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Insecure (HTTP) access to Kubernetes API

HIGH

Source

Kube Hunter

KHV006

kubernetes

Insecure (HTTP) access to Kubernetes API

The API Server port is accessible over plain HTTP, and therefore unencrypted and potentially insecured.

Recommended Actions

Ensure your setup is exposing kube-api only on an HTTPS port.

Do not enable kube-api’s --insecure-port flag in production.

Links

API Server Ports and IPs
kube-apiserver command reference

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