SUSE Rancher up to 0.15.0 authorization

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A vulnerability identified as very critical has been detected in SUSE Rancher up to 0.11.12/0.12.13/0.13.9/0.14.4/0.15.0. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes authorization. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-41050. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in SUSE Rancher up to 0.11.12/0.12.13/0.13.9/0.14.4/0.15.0 and classified as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Fleet's Helm deployer did not fully apply ServiceAccount impersonation in two code paths, allowing a tenant with git push access to a Fleet-monitored repository to read secrets from any namespace on every downstream cluster targeted by their `GitRepo`.

The weakness was published by https:, github.com and kodareef5. The advisory is shared at bugzilla.suse.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-41050 since 04/16/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/13/2026).

Upgrading to version 0.11.13, 0.12.14, 0.13.10, 0.14.5 or 0.15.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• SUSE

Name

• Rancher

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.11.0
• 0.11.1
• 0.11.2
• 0.11.3
• 0.11.4
• 0.11.5
• 0.11.6
• 0.11.7
• 0.11.8
• 0.11.9
• 0.11.10
• 0.11.11
• 0.11.12
• 0.12
• 0.12.0
• 0.12.1
• 0.12.2
• 0.12.3
• 0.12.4
• 0.12.5
• 0.12.6
• 0.12.7
• 0.12.8
• 0.12.9
• 0.12.10
• 0.12.11
• 0.12.12
• 0.12.13
• 0.13
• 0.13.0
• 0.13.1
• 0.13.2
• 0.13.3
• 0.13.4
• 0.13.5
• 0.13.6
• 0.13.7
• 0.13.8
• 0.13.9
• 0.14
• 0.14.0
• 0.14.1
• 0.14.2
• 0.14.3
• 0.14.4
• 0.15.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.suse.com/

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