CVE-2021-36783

Rancher: Failure to properly sanitize credentials in cluster template answers

Published: Sep 7, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-522

9.9CRITICAL

Description

A Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners and Project Members to read credentials, passwords and API tokens that have been stored in cleartext and exposed via API endpoints. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.6.4; Rancher versions prior to 2.5.13.

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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-522

Affected Products

SUSE

commercial·DE

RancherOn-prem

DevTools & CI / ci-cd

package-ecosystem

github.com/rancher/rancher

OSS Libraries

Rancher Labs

commercialaka rke2, rancher, rke

RancherMixed

Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Credential Access

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193990

bugzilla.suse.com

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-8w87-58w6-hfv8

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36783

nvd.nist.gov

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