CVE-2021-36782

CRITICAL

Suse Rancher < 2.5.16 - Cleartext Storage

Title source: rule

Description

A Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners, Project Members and User Base to use the Kubernetes API to retrieve plaintext version of sensitive data. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.16; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.7.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WORKING POC
by fe-ax · poc
https://github.com/fe-ax/tf-cve-2021-36782
metasploit WORKING POC
by h00die, Florian Struck, Marco Stuurman · rubypoc
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/gather/rancher_authenticated_api_cred_exposure.rb

References (2)

Scores

CVSS v3 9.9
EPSS 0.7961
EPSS Percentile 99.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-312
Status published
Products (2)
rancher/rancher 2.5.0 - 2.5.16Go
suse/rancher 2.5.0 - 2.5.16
Published Sep 07, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026