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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-11881

A vulnerability exists in Rancher before 2.2.4 in the login component, where the errorMsg parameter can be tampered to display arbitrary content, filtering tags but not special characters or symbols. There's no other limitation of the message, allowing malicious users to lure legitimate users to visit phishing sites with scare tactics, e.g., displaying a "This version of Rancher is outdated, please visit https://malicious.rancher.site/upgrading" message.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-11881

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jun 2019, 20:29 UTC

A vulnerability exists in Rancher before 2.2.4 in the login component, where the errorMsg parameter can be tampered to display arbitrary content, filtering tags but not special characters or symbols. There's no other limitation of the message, allowing malicious users to lure legitimate users to visit phishing sites with scare tactics, e.g., displaying a "This version of Rancher is outdated, please visit https://malicious.rancher.site/upgrading" message.

osv:CVE-2019-11881
Complete source record
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  "id": "1261a0d10283cba603cd81f436f4885f5fc642869e58ddbb0fdc2523eaf94e22",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-11881",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-11881",
    "summary": "A vulnerability exists in Rancher before 2.2.4 in the login component, where the errorMsg parameter can be tampered to display arbitrary content, filtering tags but not special characters or symbols. There's no other limitation of the message, allowing malicious users to lure legitimate users to visit phishing sites with scare tactics, e.g., displaying a \"This version of Rancher is outdated, please visit https://malicious.rancher.site/upgrading\" message.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-11881",
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        "GO-2024-2761"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
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      "affected": [
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                {
                  "fixed": "e59adbc7565251919d84d6e353421104be8da06e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                      },
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                      }
                    ],
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                    "range": [
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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          ],
          "versions": [
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:19.244048837Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/rancher/rancher/blob/v2.2.4/pkg/auth/providers/saml/saml_client.go#L282",
        "https://github.com/MauroEldritch/VanCleef",
        "https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/20216",
        "https://github.com/rancher/rancher/commit/e59adbc7565251919d84d6e353421104be8da06e"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383553,
  "published_at": "2019-06-10T20:29:01.09+00:00"
}