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CVE-2023-22647

Privilege Escalation via manipulation of Secrets

Severity
High 8.0
Published
1 Jun 2023
Last changed
23 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
2.6.13, 2.7.4
Also known as
GHSA-p976-h52c-26p6
Sources
NVD, Project advisories (GitHub)

Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this operation was followed-up by other specially crafted commands, it could result in the user gaining access…

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
RancherServers and applications · cpe:a:suse:rancher
  • From 2.6.0 before 2.6.13
  • From 2.7.0 before 2.7.4
RancherServers and applications · github:rancher/rancher
  • From 2.6.0 before 2.6.13
  • From 2.7.0 before 2.7.4

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22647
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22647
  • GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p976-h52c-26p6
  • github.com https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-p976-h52c-26p6