GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-m67g-87rx-v42c Calico Inserts Sensitive Information into Log File
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-41185
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/projectcalico/calico
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-532
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Affected packages
• Go github.com/projectcalico/calico: >= 2.0.0, < 3.31.6 → fixed in 3.31.6
• Go github.com/projectcalico/calico: < 1.11.0-cni-plugin.0.20260417001138-cd73bc2cea0f → fixed in 1.11.0-cni-plugin.0.20260417001138-cd73bc2cea0f
Description
When Calico is configured with the Azure IPAM plugin, the Calico CNI binary mutates the incoming CNI configuration to attach subnet information before delegating to the IPAM plugin. After mutating, the Azure IPAM helper logs the entire unmarshaled configuration map (stdinData) at INFO level to /var/log/calico/cni/cni.log on every CNI ADD and DEL invocation — once per pod scheduled or terminated on the node. When the cluster is deployed using token-based Kubernetes authentication, this log entry contains the ServiceAccount token, client key, and certificate authority in plaintext. Any principal with read access to /var/log/calico/cni/cni.log on a node can read these logs and extract the credentials, which grant cluster-wide Calico networking admin privileges.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-41185 When Calico is configured with the Azure IPAM plugin, the Calico CNI binary mutates the incoming CNI configuration to attach subnet… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41185 advisory
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12502 web
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12526 web
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12527 web
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/commit/0ca653db0ae7400ea9fb066daa7f45c902482271 web
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/commit/cd73bc2cea0f4989772f2deb93909e7cfac927e0 web
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/commit/da9ea3a13927a35e4022b787d17a005b2157d812 web
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico package
- https://www.tigera.io/security-bulletins/tta-2026-002 web