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high 8.6

CVE-2025-71261 json

Harvester's SUSE Virtualization Registration Client Vulnerable to MITM and DOS

published 6mo ago modified last mo. also GHSA-pgh9-mpwc-8jjf , GO-2026-5538 , EUVD-2025-210170

cvss
8.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An attacker with network-level access between the SUSE Virtualization and Rancher Manager in SUSE Harvester before 1.8.0 could interfere with the TLS handshake and abuse it to bypass TLS as a security control.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/harvester/harvester 1.8.0
  • SUSE Harvester 1.8
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/harvester/harvester
<1.8.0
1.8.0

Affected products

  • SUSE Harvester

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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