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critical 9.1

CVE-2026-44945 json

Cross-Cluster Impersonation Confused-Deputy Privilege Escalation

published 3mo ago modified 17d ago also EUVD-2026-53298

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • SUSE Rancher 2.11.16, 2.12.12, 2.13.8, 2.14.2, 2.14.4

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
3mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% 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

Affected products

  • SUSE Rancher

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-441 Unintended Proxy or Intermediary
  • CWE-497 Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

References

Sources

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