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Vulnerability record · CVE-2023-22651 · published 4 May 2023

CVE-2023-22651: Suse rancher improper privilege management vulnerability

Suse · Rancher

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows Privilege Escalation. A failure in the update logic of Rancher's admission Webhook may lead to the misconfiguration of the Webhook. This component enforces validation rules and security checks before resources are admitted into the Kubernetes cluster. The issue only affects users that upgrade from 2.6.x or 2.7.x to 2.7.2. Users that did a fresh install of 2.7.2 (and did not follow an upgrade path) are not affected.

9.9 CVSS 3.1 Critical EPSS 0.78% · top 45.9% CWE-269 · Improper privilege managementCWE-276 · Incorrect default permissions
9.9CVSS 3.1 base score
0.78%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows Privilege Escalation. A failure in the update logic of Rancher's admission Webhook may lead to the misconfiguration of the Webhook. This component enforces validation rules and security checks before resources are admitted into the Kubernetes cluster. The issue only affects users that upgrade from 2.6.x or 2.7.x to 2.7.2. Users that did a fresh install of 2.7.2 (and did not follow an upgrade path) are not affected.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22651 Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g MitigationThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22651 Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g MitigationThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2023-22651), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.