CVE-2023-22651

Published: May 4, 2023Updated: Jan 29, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-269

9.9CRITICAL

NVD MITRE

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.

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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-269 CWE-276

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

Workaround Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

Privilege Escalation

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22651

bugzilla.suse.com

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22651

nvd.nist.gov

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