CVE-2026-88808 json
Fleet agent copies downstream resources with cluster-admin privileges, allowing cross-namespace writes on downstream clusters
published last mo. modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-88335 , GHSA-q9v4-358v-r8q5
Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory
Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository rancher/fleet. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.
- cvss
- 8.8
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher Manager where the Fleet agent wrote resources to downstream clusters using its own cluster-admin credentials instead of the ServiceAccount pinned to the deployment. It affects multi-tenancy environments where different tenants share the same downstream clusters, for example different privileged or untrusted teams inside the same organization. This could lead to overwritten configuration files.
This issue affected SUSE Rancher Fleet 0.16 before 0.16.2, 0.15 before 0.15.7, and 0.14 before 0.14.11.
Patch / fix
- SUSE Rancher 0.14.11, 0.15.7, 0.16.2
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- last mo.
Exploit prediction
0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
- SUSE Rancher
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
References
-
github.com
/rancher/fleet/security/advisories/GHSA-q9v4-358v-r8q5
vendor-advisory, advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-88808
- NVD CVE-2026-88808
- Maintainer advisory GHSA-q9v4-358v-r8q5
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