Critical severity · published Sep 7, 2022
CVE-2021-36783
A Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners and Project Members to read credentials,…
9.9
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners and Project Members to read credentials, passwords and API tokens that have been stored in cleartext and exposed via API endpoints. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.6.4; Rancher versions prior to 2.5.13.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Rancher · Suse
2.5.0 before 2.5.13; 2.6.0 before 2.6.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36783
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36783
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193990
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-8w87-58w6-hfv8
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