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Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-41050 EUVD-2026-29917GHSA-765j-qfrp-hm3jGO-2026-5207

Helm impersonation bypass of `RESTClientGetter` retains `cluster-admin` during template rendering

Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 14, 2026 · Assigned by suse

Description

Fleet's Helm deployer did not fully apply ServiceAccount impersonation in two code paths, allowing a tenant with git push access to a Fleet-monitored repository to read secrets from any namespace on every downstream cluster targeted by their `GitRepo`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
SUSE Rancher 0.15.0 – < 0.15.1, 0.14.0 – < 0.14.5, 0.13.0 – < 0.13.10, 0.12.0 – < 0.12.14, 0.11.0 – < 0.11.13 0.15.1

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rancher/fleet >= 0.15.0, < 0.15.1 0.15.1 GHSA-765j-qfrp-hm3j
Go github.com/rancher/fleet >= 0.14.0, < 0.14.5 0.14.5 GHSA-765j-qfrp-hm3j
Go github.com/rancher/fleet >= 0.13.0, < 0.13.10 0.13.10 GHSA-765j-qfrp-hm3j
Go github.com/rancher/fleet >= 0.12.0, < 0.12.14 0.12.14 GHSA-765j-qfrp-hm3j
Go github.com/rancher/fleet >= 0.11.0, < 0.11.13 0.11.13 GHSA-765j-qfrp-hm3j
Go github.com/rancher/fleet >= 0.11.0, < 0.11.13 · >= 0.12.0, < 0.12.14 · >= 0.13.0, < 0.13.10 · >= 0.14.0, < 0.14.5 · >= 0.15.0, < 0.15.1 0.11.13, 0.12.14, 0.13.10, 0.14.5, 0.15.1 GO-2026-5207

Advisories 2

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