CVE-2026-41052 PUBLISHED

Rancher Privilege Escalation from Project Owner to Host

Assigner: suse
Reserved: 16.04.2026 Published: 29.06.2026 Updated: 30.06.2026

Improper privilege handling could be used by users with Project Owner role to escalate privileges, in Rancher versions 2.14 before 2.14.2, 2.13 before 2.13.6, and 2.12 before 2.12.10.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 9.4

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	High
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	High
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	High
Privileges Required	High
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	SUSE
Product	Rancher
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 2.12.0 to 2.12.10 (excl.) affected from 2.13.0 to 2.13.6 (excl.) affected from 2.14.0 to 2.14.2 (excl.)

Credits

Radtke Benedikt <Radtke@iabg.de> - github.com/Trolldemorted and Munier Marc <Munier@iabg.de> - github.com/mmunier finder

References

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-vx8h-4prv-g744

Problem Types

CWE-305 Authentication bypass by primary weakness CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-115 Authentication Bypass