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critical 9.1

CVE-2025-23391 json

Rancher: Restricted Administrator can change Administrator's passwords

published last yr. modified last mo. also GHSA-8p83-cpfg-fj3g , GO-2025-3586 , EUVD-2025-9310

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a Restricted Administrator to change the password of Administrators and take over their accounts. This issue affects rancher: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.14, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.8, from 2.10.0 before 2.10.4.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/rancher/rancher 2.8.14, 2.9.8, 2.10.4
  • SUSE rancher 2.8.14, 2.9.8, 2.10.4
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250402T160203-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14970-1

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/rancher/rancher
>=2.8.0, <2.8.14
>=2.9.0, <2.9.8
>=2.10.0, <2.10.4
all versions
2.8.14
2.9.8
2.10.4

Affected products

  • SUSE rancher

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

References

Sources

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