CVE-2018-20321

HIGH

Rancher <2.1.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in Rancher 2 through 2.1.5. Any project member with access to the default namespace can mount the netes-default service account in a pod, and then use that pod to execute administrative privileged commands against the k8s cluster. This could be mitigated by isolating the default namespace in a separate project, where only cluster admins can be given permissions to access. As of 2018-12-20, this bug affected ALL clusters created or imported by Rancher.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 63.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-668
Status published

Affected Products (2)

suse/rancher < 2.1.5
rancher/rancher < 2.1.6Go

Timeline

Published Apr 10, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026