Cross-Cluster Impersonation Confused-Deputy Privilege Escalation (SUSE Rancher)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.56 % · percentile 47 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- suse
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rancher's impersonation middleware (pkg/auth/requests/impersonate.go). An authenticated Rancher user with the default user global role can gain full administrative access to the Rancher control plane and transitively to all downstream clusters it manages. This issue affects Rancher: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.16, from 2.12.0 before 2.12.12, from 2.13.0 before 2.13.8, and from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-441 — Unintended Proxy or Intermediary
- CWE-497 — Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | suse |
| CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · meissner@suse.de (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-53298
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-44945
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| SUSE · Rancher | affected 2.11.0 < 2.11.16 ; affected 2.12.0 < 2.12.12 ; affected 2.13.0 < 2.13.8 ; affected 2.14.0 < 2.14.2 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |