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CVE-2024-22032: Rancher's RKE1 Encryption Config kept in plain-text within cluster AppliedSpec

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% 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-200

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in which an RKE1 cluster keeps constantly reconciling when secrets encryption configuration is enabled. When reconciling, the Kube API secret values are written in plaintext on the AppliedSpec. Cluster owners, Cluster members, and Project members (for projects within the cluster), all have RBAC permissions to view the cluster object from the apiserver.

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-2024-22032
• https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-q6c7-56cq-g2wm

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