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CVE-2019-11252 (GCVE-0-2019-11252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-23 14:47 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:24
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Title
Credential leakage when failing to mount
Summary
The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-v1.17 is vulnerable to a credential leakage via error messages in mount failure logs and events for AzureFile and CephFS volumes.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-209 - Information Exposure Through an Error Message
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Kubernetes Kubernetes Affected: 1.16
Affected: 1.17
Affected: 1.6
Affected: 1.7
Affected: 1.8
Affected: 1.9
Affected: 1.10
Affected: 1.11
Affected: 1.12
Affected: 1.13
Affected: 1.14
Affected: 1.15
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Date Public
2020-03-04 00:00
Credits
Christopher J. Ruwe
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