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CVE-2026-44945

Cross-Cluster Impersonation Confused-Deputy Privilege Escalation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rancher's impersonation middleware (pkg/auth/requests/impersonate.go). An authenticated Rancher user with the default user global role can gain full administrative access to the Rancher control plane and transitively to all downstream clusters it manages. This issue affects Rancher: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.16, from 2.12.0 before 2.12.12, from 2.13.0 before 2.13.8, and from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
SUSE / Rancheraffected 2.11.0 before 2.11.16; affected 2.12.0 before 2.12.12; affected 2.13.0 before 2.13.8; affected 2.14.0 before 2.14.2

CWE

CWE-441, CWE-497

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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