SCA: security update for github.com/rancher/rancher (GHSA-h99m-6755-rgwc)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415615

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher where a cluster or node driver can be used to escape
the chroot jail and gain root access to the Rancher container itself. In production environments, further
privilege escalation is possible based on living off the land within the Rancher container itself. For the
test and development environments, based on a –privileged Docker container, it is possible to escape the
Docker container and gain execution access on the host system. This issue affects rancher: from 2.7.0
before 2.7.16, from 2.8.0 before 2.8.9, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.3. (CVE-2024-22036)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h99m-6755-rgwc

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415615

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22036

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22036

cwe: CWE-269