CVE-2023-32197: 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: 2025-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE rancher in RoleTemplateobjects when external=true is set can lead to privilege escalation in specific scenarios.This issue affects rancher: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.14, from 2.8.0 before 2.8.5.

Affected products

SUSE 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: SUSE Rancher 2.7.14, 2.8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-32197
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-64jq-m7rq-768h

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