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CVE-2026-44945

Description

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.

CVSS 9.1EPSS 0.303%Risk 0.93
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Published
2026-08-05 10:17:27
Last modified
2026-08-06 05:17:03
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H