CVE-2026-6720 (GCVE-0-2026-6720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-28 15:47
Modified
2026-05-28 17:04
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EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||
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| Tigera | Calico |
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Nomenclature
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