CVE-2020-8565: Kubernetes

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.3, <= v1.18.10, <= v1.17.13, < v1.20.0-alpha2.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Kubernetes: from 1.17.0, up to and including 1.17.13; from 1.18.0, up to and including 1.18.10; from 1.19.0, up to and including 1.19.3

Published 2020-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.