CVE-2023-32197 (GCVE-0-2023-32197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 08:40 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
Rancher's External RoleTemplates can lead to privilege escalation
Summary
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE rancher in RoleTemplateobjects when external=true is set can lead to privilege escalation in specific scenarios.This issue affects rancher: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.14, from 2.8.0 before 2.8.5.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-18 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE rancher Affected: 2.7.0 , < 2.7.14 (semver)
Affected: 2.8.0 , < 2.8.5 (semver)
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Date Public
2024-06-17 20:30
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