CVE-2026-6720CWE-532

Calicoctl leaks cluster credentials to stderr when verbose logging is enabled

High · published May 28, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

When calicoctl is invoked with --log-level=info or --log-level=debug, the client prints the full contents of its loaded connection-configuration struct to stderr in a single log line. The struct embeds every credential calicoctl uses to talk to the cluster — inline kubeconfig (with bearer token), Kubernetes API bearer token, etcd password, and inline PEM-encoded etcd client certificate and key. Any reader of that stderr stream — CI job logs, session-recording archives, shared support-ticket transcripts, or local filesystem viewers on the host that ran calicoctl — can extract these credentials with zero Kubernetes privilege. calicoctl's default log level is panic, so this issue only triggers when verbose logging is explicitly enabled.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
EPSS
0.00298 · 21.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-532 · Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Published
2026-05-28T15:47Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 15:47Z
    Calicoctl leaks cluster credentials to stderr when verbose logging is enabled
    cvelistv5