Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Projectcalico/Calicoctl/V3 package

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Calico Inserts Sensitive Information into Log File

When calicoctl is invoked with –log-level=info or –log-level=debug, the client prints the full contents of its loaded connection-configuration struct to stderr in a single log line. The struct embeds every credential calicoctl uses to talk to the cluster — inline kubeconfig (with bearer token), Kubernetes API bearer token, etcd password, and inline PEM-encoded etcd client certificate and key. Any reader of that stderr stream — CI job logs, session-recording archives, …