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What is this endpoint?

etcd/v2/stats/leader

etcd Leader Statistics

What an attacker could do

Leader stats disclose cluster membership and the etcd version, and an unauthenticated etcd holds Kubernetes and application secrets that an attacker can read or overwrite to seize the cluster.

How to defend it

Enable client and peer TLS with certificate authentication, bind etcd to private interfaces only, and never expose it directly to untrusted networks.

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