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CVE-2025-23391 (GCVE-0-2025-23391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-11 10:38 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
Rancher: Restricted Administrator can change Administrator's passwords
Summary
A Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a Restricted Administrator to change the password of Administrators and take over their accounts. This issue affects rancher: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.14, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.8, from 2.10.0 before 2.10.4.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-12 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE rancher Affected: 2.8.0 , < 2.8.14 (semver)
Affected: 2.9.0 , < 2.9.8 (semver)
Affected: 2.10.0 , < 2.10.4 (semver)
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2025-04-01 12:19
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