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SCA: security update for github.com/rancher/rancher (GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411522

Description

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

 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows Privilege Escalation. A failure in the
 update logic of Rancher's admission Webhook may lead to the misconfiguration of the Webhook. This
 component enforces validation rules and security checks before resources are admitted into the Kubernetes
 cluster. The issue only affects users that upgrade from 2.6.x or 2.7.x to 2.7.2. Users that did a fresh
 install of 2.7.2 (and did not follow an upgrade path) are not affected. (CVE-2023-22651)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 411522

Version: Revision 1.13

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: 94.56

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 4/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22651