Vulnerability · Published Jan 29, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-24884kube-audit-rest's example logging configuration could disclose secret values in the audit log

Medium 5.1

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in kube-audit-rest from RichardoC. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 9% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

kube-audit-rest is a simple logger of mutation/creation requests to the k8s api. If the "full-elastic-stack" example vector configuration was used for a real cluster, the previous values of kubernetes secrets would have been disclosed in the audit messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.16.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Go	github.com/RichardoC/kube-audit-rest	0.0.0-20250205113217-9df8886b4819	GHSA-hcr5-wv4p-h2g2
Go	github.com/RichardoC/kube-audit-rest	0.0.0-20250129191722-db1aa5b86725	GO-2025-3431

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
RichardoC	kube-audit-rest	< 1.0.16

Weakness: CWE-200, CWE-212, CWE-532 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

https://github.com/RichardoC/kube-audit-rest/security/advisories/GHSA-hcr5-wv4p-h2g2 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/RichardoC/kube-audit-rest/commit/db1aa5b867256b0a7bf206544c6981ab068b73dc x_refsource_MISC