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CVE-2026-55997

Long-lived Rancher registration token exposed in plaintext PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
rancher / rancheraffected 2.14.0 before 2.14.4; affected 2.13.0 before 2.13.8

CWE

CWE-312

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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