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CVE-2023-32196: Rancher's External RoleTemplates can lead to privilege escalation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

A vulnerability has been identified whereby privilege escalation checks are not properly enforced for RoleTemplateobjects when external=true, which in specific scenarios can lead to privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Rancher: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.14; from 2.8.0 before 2.8.5 — fixed in 2.7.14, 2.8.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rancher 2.7.14, 2.8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-32196
• https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-64jq-m7rq-768h

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