🛡️ CVE-2019-11250 — client-go

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-532 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Kubernetes client-go library logs may disclose credentials to unauthorized users

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-11250 is classified as CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. Sensitive values are written to logs, which are typically kept longer and read more widely than the data warrants.

Affected software

CVE-2019-11250 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • k8s.io/client-go
  • k8s.io/kubernetes

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pkg.go.dev (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-532
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
k8s.io/client-go — —
k8s.io/kubernetes — —

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