CVE-2023-22651
CRITICALSUSE Rancher 2.6.0-2.7.1 and 2.7.2 - Privilege Escalation via Admission Webhook Misconfiguration
Title source: llmDescription
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows Privilege Escalation. A failure in the update logic of Rancher's admission Webhook may lead to the misconfiguration of the Webhook. This component enforces validation rules and security checks before resources are admitted into the Kubernetes cluster. The issue only affects users that upgrade from 2.6.x or 2.7.x to 2.7.2. Users that did a fresh install of 2.7.2 (and did not follow an upgrade path) are not affected.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22651
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g
Scores
CVSS v3
9.9
EPSS
0.0037
EPSS Percentile
58.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-269
CWE-276
Status
published
Products (2)
rancher/rancher
2.7.2 - 2.7.3Go
suse/rancher
2.6.0 - 2.7.2
Published
May 04, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026