Calicoctl leaks cluster credentials to stderr when verbose logging is enabled_CVE-2026-6720

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    "description": "When calicoctl is invoked with --log-level=info or --log-level=debug, the client prints the full contents of its loaded connection-configuration struct to stderr in a single log line. The struct embeds every credential calicoctl uses to talk to the cluster \u2014 inline kubeconfig (with bearer token), Kubernetes API bearer token, etcd password, and inline PEM-encoded etcd client certificate and key. Any reader of that stderr stream \u2014 CI job logs, session-recording archives, shared support-ticket transcripts, or local filesystem viewers on the host that ran calicoctl \u2014 can extract these credentials with zero Kubernetes privilege. calicoctl's default log level is panic, so this issue only triggers when verbose logging is explicitly enabled.",
    "published": "2026-05-28T15:47:42.519Z",
    "modified": "2026-05-28T15:47:42.519Z",
    "type": "cve",
    "title": "Calicoctl leaks cluster credentials to stderr when verbose logging is enabled",
    "source": "Tigera",
    "references": "https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12535\nhttps://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12536\nhttps://github.com/projectcalico/calico/pull/12537\nhttps://www.tigera.io/security-bulletins/tta-2026-003/",
    "id": "CVE-2026-6720",
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    "cwe": [
        "CWE-532"
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    "sourceData": "Tigera Calico 0\nTigera Calico Enterprise 0\nTigera Calico Cloud 0",
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        "score": 7.2,
        "severity": "HIGH",
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    "product": "Calico",
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