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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2019-11252 json

Credential leakage when failing to mount

published 2020-07-23 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-2945

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-v1.17 is vulnerable to a credential leakage via error messages in mount failure logs and events for AzureFile and CephFS volumes.

Patch / fix

  • kubernetes Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.18.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11252

  • openshift openshift 4.5 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el7
  • openshift openshift 4.5 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el8
  • openshift-hyperkube openshift 4.5 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el7
  • openshift-hyperkube openshift 4.5 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el8
  • machine-config-daemon openshift 4.5 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.2527.d12c3da.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:2413

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-11252 updated cvss 5.9

kubernetes: credential leak in kube-controller-manager via error messages in mount failure logs and events for AzureFile and CephFS volumes

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift, atomic-openshift-pod, atomic-openshift-node, atomic-openshift-tests, atomic-openshift-master, atomic-openshift-clients, +7 more Red Hat Storage 3 heketi, heketi-client, python-heketi
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 openshift4/ose-hyperkube v4.5.0-202007100518.p0, openshift 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el7, openshift 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el8, openshift-hyperkube 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el7, openshift-hyperkube 4.5.0-202007012112.p0.git.0.582d7fc.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2413
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 openshift4/ose-console v4.5.0-202007012112.p0, openshift4/ose-multus-cni v4.5.0-202007012112.p0, openshift4/ose-cluster-capacity v4.5.0-202007012112.p0, openshift4/ose-oauth-server-rhel7 v4.5.0-202007012112.p0, openshift4/ose-cluster-logging-operator v4.5.0-202007012112.p0, openshift4/ose-cluster-machine-approver v4.5.0-202007012112.p0, +1 more Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-must-gather-rhel8, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Kubernetes Kubernetes

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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