diff --git a/apis/management.cattle.io/v3/k8s_defaults.go b/apis/management.cattle.io/v3/k8s_defaults.go
index ac64949f..0840d6cb 100644
--- a/apis/management.cattle.io/v3/k8s_defaults.go
+++ b/apis/management.cattle.io/v3/k8s_defaults.go
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ var (
 
 	// v19 system images defaults
 	v19SystemImages = RKESystemImages{
-		Etcd:                      "rancher/coreos-etcd:v3.0.17",
+		Etcd:                      "rancher/coreos-etcd:v3.1.12",
 		Kubernetes:                "rancher/k8s:" + K8sV19,
 		Alpine:                    "alpine:latest",
 		NginxProxy:                "rancher/rke-nginx-proxy:v0.1.1",