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SCA: security update for github.com/rancher/rancher (GHSA-p976-h52c-26p6)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417415

Description

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

 - An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their
 existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being
 deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this operation was followed-
 up by other specially crafted commands, it could result in the user gaining access to tokens belonging to
 service accounts in the local cluster. This issue affects Rancher: from >= 2.6.0 before < 2.6.13, from >=
 2.7.0 before < 2.7.4. (CVE-2023-22647)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p976-h52c-26p6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 417415

Version: Revision 1.11

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22647

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22647