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Critical · 9.9 Public exploit CVE-2021-36782 EUVD-2022-6818GHSA-g7j7-h4q8-8w2f

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

Published Sep 7, 2022 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by suse

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
SUSE Rancher Rancher – < 2.5.16, Rancher – < 2.6.7 2.5.16

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

GitHub 1 repository

  • fe-ax/tf-cve-2021-36782 ★ 0 · Dec 1, 2022

    A Terraform module to launch Rancher 2.6.6 for blog article about CVE-2021-36782

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rancher/rancher >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.16 2.5.16 GHSA-g7j7-h4q8-8w2f
Go github.com/rancher/rancher >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.7 2.6.7 GHSA-g7j7-h4q8-8w2f

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