CVE-2026-44945: SUSE Rancher vulnerability
SUSE · Rancher
Vendor fix available · Affected: SUSE Rancher · Exploitation: not established
ExploitationNot established
Not in CISA KEV as of catalogue 2026.11.13 (13 Nov)
- In CISA KEV: not seen
- Exploited (reported): not seen
- Scanning observed: not seen
- Proof of concept public: not seen
- Not establishedNothing in the sources we check
Higher than 47% of scored CVEs
DescriptionNVD
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.
On the Atlas
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- SUSE
- Published
- August 2026
Coverage1 article · 1 outlet
First in our coverage: SecurityOnline, 11 Aug.
- Critical Rancher Flaw Lets Users Hijack Kubernetes ClustersSecurityOnline · first in our coverage
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