Medium severity · published Mar 4, 2026
CVE-2025-62879
Rancher Backup Operator pod's logs leak S3 tokens
4.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability has been identified within the Rancher Backup Operator, resulting in the leakage of S3 tokens (both accessKey and secretKey) into the rancher-backup-operator pod's logs.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Rancher · SUSE
9.0.0 before 9.0.1; 8.0.0 before 8.1.2; 7.0.0 before 7.0.5; 6.0.0 before 6.0.3 · source: vendor
RB
Rancher Backup And Restore Operator · Suse
6.0.0 before 6.0.3; 7.0.0 before 7.0.5; 8.0.0 before 8.1.2; 9.0.0 before 9.0.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62879
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62879
Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-62879
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wj3p-5h3x-c74q
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