CVE-2026-41184
ServiceAccount token disclosure via install-cni container logs
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Tigera
Description
In Calico, the install-cni init container logs the rendered CNI configuration to standard output. When the configuration template uses the __SERVICEACCOUNT_TOKEN__ placeholder (Canal/Flannel-Calico deployments), the installer substitutes the live Kubernetes ServiceAccount bearer token before logging, exposing the token to any authenticated user with pods/log permission in the namespace with calico-node. The token holds patch privileges on pods/status, enabling annotation-based attacks against cluster workloads. The default kubeconfig-based authentication path is not affected. This is a direct regression of TTA-2018-001.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| TigeraCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/projectcalico/calicoGHSA-9p7w-w5q6-mxj3 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12502 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12527 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12526 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.tigera.io/security-bulletins/tta-2026-001/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9p7w-w5q6-mxj3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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