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CVE-2026-44940: Service token exposure and potential privilege escalation in SUSE Observability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-17 · updated 2026-09-29
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The rancher-extension-stackstate extension in SUSE Observability exposes service tokens in plain configuration or insecure locations rather than managing them securely. An attacker with minimal access could obtain the token to gain unauthorized access or escalate privileges within the observability environment.

Affected products

• SUSE Observability: before 2.13.6; from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2 — fixed in 2.13.6, 2.14.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SUSE Observability 2.13.6, 2.14.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44940
• https://github.com/StackVista/rancher-extension-stackstate/security/advisories/GHSA-7c27-jc6w-pw95

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