CVE-2026-94290 PUBLISHED

Privilege escalation to cluster-admin on the Rancher local cluster through Fleet's agent management controller

Assigner: suse
Reserved: 21.09.2026 Published: 02.11.2026 Updated: 03.11.2026

SUSE Rancher Fleet clusters reference a kubeconfig secret that the controller uses to install and manage a Fleet agent on the target cluster. The controller did not sufficiently restrict which kubeconfig secrets a Fleet Cluster object was allowed to reference. As a result, a Fleet cluster defined in a namespace an ordinary user controls could be associated with administrative credentials for the management cluster itself, causing the controller to manage the management cluster on that user's behalf and to run that user's Fleet content there with elevated privileges. This affects SUSE Rancher Fleet 0.16.0 up to 0.16.3, 0.15.0 up to 0.15.8, 0.14.0 up to 0.14.12, 0.13.0 up to 0.13.17 and possible older versions.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor SUSE
Product Rancher
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.16.0 to 0.16.3 (excl.)
  • affected from 0.15.0 to 0.15.8 (excl.)
  • affected from 0.14.0 to 0.14.12 (excl.)
  • affected from 0.13.0 to 0.13.17 (excl.)

Credits

  • Kenzie Cuttler finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-250 Execution with unnecessary privileges CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation