CVE-2026-41185 PUBLISHED

ServiceAccount token disclosure via Azure IPAM CNI plugin logs

Assigner: Tigera
Reserved: 17.04.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

When Calico is configured with the Azure IPAM plugin, the Calico CNI binary mutates the incoming CNI configuration to attach subnet information before delegating to the IPAM plugin. After mutating, the Azure IPAM helper logs the entire unmarshaled configuration map (stdinData) at INFO level to /var/log/calico/cni/cni.log on every CNI ADD and DEL invocation — once per pod scheduled or terminated on the node. When the cluster is deployed using token-based Kubernetes authentication, this log entry contains the ServiceAccount token, client key, and certificate authority in plaintext. Any principal with read access to /var/log/calico/cni/cni.log on a node  can read these logs and extract the credentials, which grant cluster-wide Calico networking admin privileges.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 6

Product Status

Vendor Tigera
Product Calico
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 3.32.0 (excl.)
Vendor Tigera
Product Calico Enterprise
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 3.21.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.22.0 to 3.22.3 (excl.)
Vendor Tigera
Product Calico Cloud
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 22.4.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Behnam Shobiri finder
  • Behnam Shobiri remediation developer
  • Anthony Tam remediation reviewer
  • Matt Dupre remediation reviewer
  • Casey Davenport remediation verifier

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-532 Insertion of sensitive information into log file CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-150 Collect Data from Common Resource Locations