Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thing or two about the nature of internet exposure, so we figured, why not break up all the protocol studies into their own reports?
So, here we are! What follows is taken directly from our National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report (NICER), so if you don't want to wait around for the next installment, you can cheat and read ahead!
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etcd (TCP/2379)
Gleaming the Kube(rnetes)
TLDR
WHAT IT IS: Another distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines.
HOW MANY: 2,560 discovered nodes. 2,560 (100%) have version fingerprints
VULNERABILITIES: Two low-to-moderate CVEs since 2018.
ADVICE: Use it! Just don’t expose it to the internet.
ALTERNATIVES: Redis and memcached are two similar, alternative in-memory key-value stores with characteristics similar to etcd.
The etcd key-value service is part of the Kubernetes ecosystem and is designed to hold system/service configuration and state information. The Kubernetes API Server uses etcd's watch API to monitor the cluster and roll out critical configuration changes or simply restore any divergences of the state of the cluster back to what was declared by the deployer. It exposes a JSON API over the HT ..
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