CVE-2019-11250

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Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	k8s.io/client-go	`<0.17.0`	`0.17.0`
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`<1.16.0-beta.1`	`1.16.0-beta.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.