CVE-2026-88810 json
Privilege escalation in downstream clusters via GlobalRole inheritedNamespacedRules
published 13d ago modified 8d ago also EUVD-2026-115328 , GHSA-f898-2c8h-r7jc
Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory
Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository rancher/webhook. 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
- 7.2
- 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 privilege escalation issue was discovered in Rancher Manager's role-based access control. The inheritedNamespacedRules field of a GlobalRole propagates permissions into named namespaces of every downstream cluster managed by the Rancher instance, but it was not subject to the privilege-escalation validation applied to the other permission-carrying fields of a GlobalRole. As a result, a non-administrative user could be granted, through a global role binding, permissions in downstream clusters that exceed the permissions that user already holds. This affected SUSE Rancher 2.15.2 only, and SUSE Rancher Webhook 0.11.0 up to 0.11.4, and 0.12.0 up to 0.12.1.
Patch / fix
- SUSE Rancher 0.11.4, 0.12.1, 2.15.3
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- 10d ago
Exploit prediction
0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
- SUSE Rancher
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
References
-
github.com
/rancher/webhook/security/advisories/GHSA-f898-2c8h-r7jc
vendor-advisory, advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-88810
- NVD CVE-2026-88810
- Maintainer advisory GHSA-f898-2c8h-r7jc
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