CVE-2021-36782

Rancher: Plaintext storage and exposure of credentials in Rancher API and cluster.management.cattle.io object

Published: Sep 7, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-312

9.9CRITICAL

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-312

Affected Products

SUSE

commercial·DE

RancherOn-prem

DevTools & CI / ci-cd

package-ecosystem

github.com/rancher/rancher

OSS Libraries

Rancher Labs

commercialaka rke, rancher, rke2

RancherMixed

Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

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Exploitability

2 exploit sources identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

Credential Access

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193988

bugzilla.suse.com

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-g7j7-h4q8-8w2f

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36782

nvd.nist.gov

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