CVE-2022-31247

Rancher: Downstream cluster privilege escalation through cluster and project role template binding (CRTB/PRTB)

Published: Sep 7, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-285

9.1CRITICAL

Description

An Improper Authorization vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, allows any user who has permissions to create/edit cluster role template bindings or project role template bindings (such as cluster-owner, manage cluster members, project-owner and manage project members) to gain owner permission in another project in the same cluster or in another project on a different downstream cluster. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.6.7; Rancher versions prior to 2.5.16.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:HPrivileges Required

High

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-285 NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

Rancher Labs

commercialaka rke, rke2, rancher

RancherMixed

Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

SUSE

commercial·DE

RancherOn-prem

DevTools & CI / ci-cd

package-ecosystem

github.com/rancher/rancher

OSS Libraries

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Workaround Available

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References

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6x34-89p7-95wg

github.com

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199730

bugzilla.suse.com

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6x34-89p7-95wg

github.com

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