THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-36782
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2021-36782

Rancher vulnerability

CVSS
9.9
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
A Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners, Project Members and User Base to use the Kubernetes API to retrieve plaintext version of sensitive data. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.16; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.7.
Affected vendor
Suse
Affected product
Rancher
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Published
2022-09-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-36782

  • Confirm whether Suse Rancher is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-36782.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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