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CVE-2020-8565 Moderate

CVE-2020-8565

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.3, <= v1.18.10, <= v1.17.13, < v1.20.0-alpha2.

Exploit probability 0.5%
Published December 7, 2020
Required by Not available
Last source change August 7, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

55 explicit affected versions

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

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-8565

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.3, <= v1.18.10, <= v1.17.13, < v1.20.0-alpha2.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2021-0064

Authorization tokens may be inappropriately logged if the verbosity level is set to a debug level. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11250.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-8cfg-vx93-jvxw

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.5, <= v1.18.13, <= v1.17.15, < v1.20.0-alpha2.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence