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GHSA-3m4q-ggcj-j6m4 Calico Inserts Sensitive Information into Log File

HIGH Published 2026-05-28 Modified 2026-07-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-6720
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/projectcalico/calicoctl/v3
Severity
High
CVSS 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
Weaknesses
CWE-532
Reviewed
2026-07-02

Affected packages

• Go github.com/projectcalico/calicoctl/v3: < 3.31.6 → fixed in 3.31.6

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-6720 When calicoctl is invoked with --log-level=info or --log-level=debug, the client prints the full contents of its loaded… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

References