Rancher up to 2.12.11/2.13.7/2.14.3 Audit Logging copyReqBody allocation of resources

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Rancher up to 2.12.11/2.13.7/2.14.3. Affected by this issue is the function copyReqBody of the component Audit Logging. Executing a manipulation can lead to allocation of resources. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-59675. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Rancher up to 2.12.11/2.13.7/2.14.3. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function copyReqBody of the component Audit Logging. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

When API audit logging is enabled, the middleware reads the entire HTTP request body into memory without enforcing a size limit on login endpoints. Because the audit middleware is positioned earlier in the handler chain than Rancher's APIBodyLimitingHandler, the body-size cap (default 1 MiB) is bypassed for requests that pass through the audit copyReqBody path. An unauthenticated attacker can send arbitrarily large request bodies to the public login endpoints, causing the Rancher Manager server process to allocate memory proportional to the supplied body size. With just a few concurrent connections, this can exhaust available memory and terminate the Rancher Manager plane process, making the Rancher API and UI unavailable and interrupting management of all downstream clusters.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-59675 since 07/06/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.12.12, 2.13.8 or 2.14.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Rancher

Version

• 2.12.0
• 2.12.1
• 2.12.2
• 2.12.3
• 2.12.4
• 2.12.5
• 2.12.6
• 2.12.7
• 2.12.8
• 2.12.9
• 2.12.10
• 2.12.11
• 2.13.0
• 2.13.1
• 2.13.2
• 2.13.3
• 2.13.4
• 2.13.5
• 2.13.6
• 2.13.7
• 2.14.0
• 2.14.1
• 2.14.2
• 2.14.3

Website

• Product: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/

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