CVE-2019-11250
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.81%Unauthorized credential disclosure in k8s.io/kubernetes and k8s.io/client-go
Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The Kubernetes client-go library logs request headers at verbosity levels of 7 or higher. This can disclose credentials to unauthorized users via logs or command output. Kubernetes components (such as kube-apiserver) prior to v1.16.0, which make use of basic or bearer token authentication, and run at high verbosity levels, are affected.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.17.4-1
- Go/k8s.io/client-gofrom 0, < 0.17.0
- Go/k8s.io/client-gofrom 0, < 0.17.0
- Go/k8s.io/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.16.0-beta.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11250
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11250
- PATCHhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4052
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4087
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/4441f1d9c3e94d9a3d93b4f184a591cab02a5245
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/81114
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81330
- WEBhttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0065
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190919-0003
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/16/2