CVE-2023-22651

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-05-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

SUSE Rancher: from 2.6.0 through 2.7.2

References

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

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