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CVE-2026-41184

24
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 28, 2026Last modified: May 28, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.21.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tigera:calico:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
< 3.32.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tigera:calico:*:*:*:*:open_source:*:*:*
< 22.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tigera:calico:*:*:*:*:cloud:*:*:*
>= 3.22.0, < 3.22.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tigera:calico:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 0, < 3.31.6CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:tigera:calico:*:*:*:*:cloud:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
LOW
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
LOW
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/projectcalico/calicoFixed in: 3.31.6
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/projectcalico/calicoFixed in: 1.11.0-cni-plugin.0.20260417001138-cd73bc2cea0f

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-9p7w-w5q6-mxj3medium

Calico Inserts Sensitive Information into Log File

May 28, 2026
microsoft2026-May/CVE-2026-41184Moderate

ServiceAccount token disclosure via install-cni container logs

May 12, 2026

References

github.com / projectcalico/calico/pull/12502
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / projectcalico/calico/pull/12526
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / projectcalico/calico/pull/12527
Issue TrackingPatch
tigera.io / security-bulletins/tta-2026-001
MitigationVendor Advisory