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CVE-2025-71425VulnerabilityPublished

Contrast (Edgeless Systems) before 1.8.1 logs the workload secret to stderr, and thus to Kubernetes logs, when the Contrast initializer is configured with CONTRAST_LOG_LEVEL set to info or debug

Affects contrastSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-71425· High 8.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.5 High : upgrade to 1.8.1 soon.

Data as of 10 Nov 2026, 23:24 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 8% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.8.1
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 27 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade edgelesssys/contrast to 1.8.1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
GitHubedgelesssys/contrastpkg:github/edgelesssys/contrastOther threatsAffected
  • <1.8.1
Fixed in
  • 1.8.1

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in Contrast (Edgeless Systems) version 1.8.1 and later. Users should upgrade to version 1.8.1 or above to prevent workload secrets from being logged. Alternatively, configuring the Contrast initializer with a log level other than info or debug can mitigate exposure, but upgrading is the recommended remediation. Deployments not using workload secrets are not affected and require no action.

Description

Contrast (Edgeless Systems) before 1.8.1 logs the workload secret to stderr, and thus to Kubernetes logs, when the Contrast initializer is configured with CONTRAST_LOG_LEVEL set to info or debug. Because info is the default, all installations that do not customize the initializer log level are affected. This exposes workload secrets — normally accessible only to the Contrast Coordinator, the initializer, the seedshare owner, and the workload owner — to Kubernetes users with get or list permission on pods/logs and to anyone with read access to the Kubernetes log storage, such as the cloud provider. Deployments that do not use workload secrets are unaffected.

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