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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-55997 EUVD-2026-53259

Long-lived Rancher registration token exposed in plaintext

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026 · Assigned by suse

Description

Rancher issues long-lived registration tokens to authenticate nodes and agents joining a downstream cluster. These tokens were stored and exposed in plaintext with no expiration, so a malicious user could obtain one either through the Rancher API, etcd, stored automation, or direct file access on a node, and could use it at any time to register a rogue node into the cluster.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rancher rancher 2.14.0 – < 2.14.4, 2.13.0 – < 2.13.8 2.14.4

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