CVE-2019-11243

mediumpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.49% (74th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

In Kubernetes v1.12.0-v1.12.4 and v1.13.0, the rest.AnonymousClientConfig() method returns a copy of the provided config, with credentials removed (bearer token, username/password, and client certificate/key data). In the affected versions, rest.AnonymousClientConfig() did not effectively clear service account credentials loaded using rest.InClusterConfig()

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.1–8.1

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.9

v3.03.1lowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.03.1lowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · jordan@liggitt.netexploitability 1.6 · impact 1.4

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-212USprimaryCWE-212USCWE-271USCWE-271US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Kubernetes Kubernetes≤ v1.12 ≤v1.12.4enisa_euvdEU
Kubernetes Kubernetes≤ v1.13 ≤v1.13.0enisa_euvdEU
kubernetes kubernetes1.12.0 → 1.12.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:kubernetes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
kubernetes kubernetes= 1.13.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:kubernetes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp tridentall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:netapp:trident:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go k8s.io/kubernetes1.12.0 → 1.12.5osvUSpkg:golang/k8s.io/kubernetes
Go k8s.io/kubernetes1.13.0 → 1.13.1osvUSpkg:golang/k8s.io/kubernetes

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-gc2p-g4fg-29vhKubernetes did not effectively clear service account credentials2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
In Kubernetes v1.12.0-v1.12.4 and v1.13.0, the rest.AnonymousClientConfig() method returns a copy of the provided config, with credentials removed (bearer token, username/password, and client certificate/key data). In the affected versions, rest.AnonymousClientConfig() did not effectively clear service account credentials loaded using rest.InClusterConfig()
GO-2025-3645Kubernetes did not effectively clear service account credentials in k8s.io/kubernetes2025-05-05vendor · osvUS
Kubernetes did not effectively clear service account credentials in k8s.io/kubernetes

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-04-22modified 2026-06-17

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references (15)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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