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KHV006	Insecure (HTTP) access to Kubernetes API	Unauthenticated Access	high

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Issue description

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

Remediation

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

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

References

• API Server Ports and IPs
• kube-apiserver command reference