8.9

CVE-2024-52281: suse rancher Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 8.9v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesGHSA-2v2w-8v8c-wcm9GO-2025-3391CGA-3rrx-v954-j589
Published 16-04-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52281 is a high (CVSS 8.9) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in suse rancher. EPSS estimates a 0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.9/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.56%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14653-1SUSE-SU-2025:0297-1CGA-HMV3-2XP5-8MV8

Timeline

  1. 16-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a malicious actor to perform a Stored XSS attack through the cluster description field. This issue affects rancher: from 2.9.0 before 2.9.4.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.56%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

45%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.55% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.56%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard4 products
  • harvester< 1.8.1-r1
  • harvester-fips< 1.8.1-r0
  • harvester-fips-webhook< 1.8.1-r0
  • harvester-webhook< 1.8.1-r1
Github.com/rancher1 product
  • rancher≥ 2.9.0, < 2.9.4 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Suse1 product

3 vendors · 6 products

References

5 links