CVE-2020-8565

unknown
Published 2023-02-06 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8565

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8565.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.20.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.20.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.20.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1.20.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.20.0-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gok8s.io/client-go>=0.19.0,<0.19.60.19.6
golang Gok8s.io/client-go>=0.20.0-alpha.0,<0.20.0-alpha.20.20.0-alpha.2
golang Gok8s.io/client-go>=0.18.0,<0.18.140.18.14
golang Gok8s.io/client-go<0.17.160.17.16
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes<1.20.0-alpha.21.20.0-alpha.2
golang Gok8s.io/client-go<0.20.0-alpha.20.20.0-alpha.2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.