High severity · published Oct 15, 2026
CVE-2024-22031
Rancher users who can create Projects can gain access to arbitrary projects
8.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher where a user with the ability to create a project, on a certain cluster, can create a project with the same name as an existing project in a different cluster. This results in the user gaining access to the other project in the different cluster, resulting in a privilege escalation. This happens because the namespace used on the local cluster to store related resources (PRTBs and secrets) is the name of the project.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
rancher · SUSE
2.8.0 before 2.9.9; 2.10.0 before 2.10.5; 2.11.0 before 2.11.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22031
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22031
bugzilla.suse.com
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2024-22031
github.com
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-8h6m-wv39-239m
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