vulnerability

Kubernetes: CVE-2020-8565: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11250 allows for token leak in logs

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 7, 2020
Added
Dec 21, 2020
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.3, <= v1.18.10, <= v1.17.13, < v1.20.0-alpha2.

Solutions

kubernetes-upgrade-1_17_13kubernetes-upgrade-1_18_10kubernetes-upgrade-1_19_3
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