High
Rancher: Privilege escalation via promoted roles
Type: advisorySources: OSV
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, allows users with access to the escalate verb on PRTBs to escalate permissions for any -promoted resource in any cluster. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.17; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.10.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-43759
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 23:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Rancher: Privilege escalation via promoted roles
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 7 Feb 2023, 00:00 UTC
A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, allows users with access to the escalate verb on PRTBs to escalate permissions for any -promoted resource in any cluster. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.17; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.10.
osv:CVE-2022-43759
Complete source record
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