9.1

CVE-2025-23391: suse rancher Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVSS: 9.1v3.1CriticalDeferred
AliasesGHSA-8p83-cpfg-fj3gGO-2025-3586CGA-5wcq-x8hw-9v78
Published 11-04-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-23391 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in suse rancher. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.1/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.46%
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 1 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14970-1CGA-2C6Q-RP5Q-C224

Timeline

  1. 11-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a Restricted Administrator to change the password of Administrators and take over their accounts. This issue affects rancher: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.14, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.8, from 2.10.0 before 2.10.4.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.46%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

39%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.46% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.46%

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≥ 2.8.0, < 2.8.14 | ≥ 2.9.0, < 2.9.8 | ≥ 2.10.0, < 2.10.4 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Suse1 product
  • rancher≥ 2.8.0, < 2.8.14 | ≥ 2.9.0, < 2.9.8 | ≥ 2.10.0, < 2.10.4

3 vendors · 6 products

References

5 links