CVE-2023-22647

Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this operation was followed-up by other specially crafted commands, it could result in the user gaining access to tokens belonging to service accounts in the local cluster. This issue affects Rancher: from >= 2.6.0 before < 2.6.13, from >= 2.7.0 before < 2.7.4.

Category

9.9
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.82% Top 30%
Vendor Advisory suse.com Vendor Advisory github.com
Affected: SUSE Rancher
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-p976-h52c-26p6 vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-22647 vendor advisory issue tracking

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2023-22647?
CVE-2023-22647 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2023-22647?
To fix CVE-2023-22647, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2023-22647 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2023-22647 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2023-22647?
CVE-2023-22647 affects SUSE Rancher.
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