SUSE Rancher up to 2.7.15/2.8.8/2.9.2 privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in SUSE Rancher up to 2.7.15/2.8.8/2.9.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-22036. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in SUSE Rancher up to 2.7.15/2.8.8/2.9.2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.suse.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-22036 since 01/04/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/16/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 2.7.16, 2.8.9 or 2.9.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• SUSE

Name

• Rancher

Version

• 2.7.0
• 2.7.1
• 2.7.2
• 2.7.3
• 2.7.4
• 2.7.5
• 2.7.6
• 2.7.7
• 2.7.8
• 2.7.9
• 2.7.10
• 2.7.11
• 2.7.12
• 2.7.13
• 2.7.14
• 2.7.15
• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.suse.com/

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