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title: "CVE-2025-71425: Contrast Edgeless Systems - Information Disclosure"
description: "Contrast (Edgeless Systems) < 1.8.1 contains an information disclosure vulnerability caused by logging workload secrets to stderr when CONTRAST_LOG_LEVEL is set to info or debug, letting Kubernetes users with log access view sensitive secrets, exploit requires default or debug log level configuration."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2025-71425/
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# CVE-2025-71425 Contrast Edgeless Systems - Information Disclosure

Contrast (Edgeless Systems) < 1.8.1 contains an information disclosure vulnerability caused by logging workload secrets to stderr when CONTRAST\_LOG\_LEVEL is set to info or debug, letting Kubernetes users with log access view sensitive secrets, exploit requires default or debug log level configuration.

CVSS base score 7.3 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

EPSS

0.19% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71425)

## Details

Type

Information Disclosure

Impact

Information Disclosure

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Published

27 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-532](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/532.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to version 1.8.1 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71425](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71425)
- [https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contrast-before-1.8.1-information-disclosure-via-logging](https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contrast-before-1.8.1-information-disclosure-via-logging)
- [https://github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/security/advisories/GHSA-h5f8-crrq-4pw8](https://github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/security/advisories/GHSA-h5f8-crrq-4pw8)

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- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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