Bug 1759118 - kube-state-metrics: new feature exposing annotations as metrics can lead to information disclosure
Summary: kube-state-metrics: new feature exposing annotations as metrics can lead to i...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1740431
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Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2019-10-07 12:50 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2020-03-18 04:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-12-01 23:41:32 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2019-10-07 12:50:57 UTC 
A combination of the default kubectl behavior and this new feature can cause the entire secret content to end up in metric labels, thus inadvertently exposing the secret content in metrics.

Upstream advisory:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/releases/tag/v1.7.2
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2019-12-01 23:41:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1740431 ***
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