CVE-2023-22651 | Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher … | CVSS 9.9 CRITICAL

Description

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2023-22651
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: suse
Reserved: 2023-01-05 10:40 UTC
Published: 2023-05-04 07:53 UTC
Last updated: 2025-01-29 16:49 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-269
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Vendor / Product: SUSE / Rancher
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.9 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
SUSE	Rancher	—	2.6.0 ≤ 2.7.2, 2.7.3

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-269	cna	CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
CWE-276	adp	CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

CVSS scores (2)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.9	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.9	CRITICAL	3.1	adp	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)