CVE-2026-44945 (GCVE-0-2026-44945)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 10:00 – Updated: 2026-08-06 03:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Cross-Cluster Impersonation Confused-Deputy Privilege Escalation
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rancher's impersonation middleware (pkg/auth/requests/impersonate.go). An authenticated Rancher user with the default user
global role can gain full administrative access to the Rancher control
plane and transitively to all downstream clusters it manages.
This issue affects Rancher: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.16, from 2.12.0 before 2.12.12, from 2.13.0 before 2.13.8, and from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/rancher/rancher/pull/55983 | patch |
| https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advis… | vendor-advisory |
| https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-202… | issue-tracking |
Impacted products
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