CVE-2025-71425

HIGHPre-NVD 7.37.3—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-27. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
7.3
EG Score
7.3HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
33
EG Risk 33/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity73% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
7th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 27, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 27, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
generic

Contrast before 1.8.1 Information Disclosure via Logging | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contrast-before-1.8.1-information-disclosure-via-logging
github Patch Available

Workload secrets leak to logs on INFO level · Advisory · edgelesssys/contrast · GitHub

https://github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/security/advisories/GHSA-h5f8-crrq-4pw8

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-71425(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
github.com/edgelesssys/contrast—1.8.1—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 35× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 10:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-03 23:50 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-03 23:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-03 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-02 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-02 03:58 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-02 03:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-10-01 17:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-01 05:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-30 18:41 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-30 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-30 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-30 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-30 11:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-30 00:21 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-30 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-09-29 13:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-29 02:24 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-09-29 02:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-28 15:26 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-28 15:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-28 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-09-28 11:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-28 00:38 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-28 00:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-27 13:40 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-27 13:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-27 13:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-27 02:37 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-27 01:53 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-27 01:49 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-71425?
CVE-2025-71425 is a high vulnerability published on September 27, 2026. 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 CONTRASTLOGLEVEL set to info or debug. Because info is the default, all installations that do not customize the initializer log level are…
When was CVE-2025-71425 disclosed?
CVE-2025-71425 was first published on September 27, 2026, with the most recent update on September 30, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-71425 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-71425 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-71425?
CVE-2025-71425 has a CVSS base score of 7.3 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-71425?
A fix for CVE-2025-71425 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-71425 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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