Security advisory
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to lure legitimate users to visit phishing sites with scare tactics, e.g., displaying a "This version of Rancher is outdated, please visit https://malicious.rancher.site/upgrading" message.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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to lure legitimate users to visit phishing sites with scare tactics, e.g., displaying a "This version of Rancher is outdated, please visit https://malicious.rancher.site/upgrading" message.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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"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"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383553,
"published_at": "2019-06-10T20:29:01.09+00:00"
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