High severity · published May 2, 2022
CVE-2021-36784
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows users with the restricted-admin role to escalate to full admin
7.2
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows users with the restricted-admin role to escalate to full admin. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.13; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.4.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 60% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Rancher · Suse
before 2.5.13; 2.6.0 before 2.6.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36784
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36784
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193991
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