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CVE-2026-44945: suse rancher Confused Deputy

CVSS: 9.1v3.1CriticalAwaiting analysis
Published 05-08-2026Last modified 06-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-44945 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Confused Deputy vulnerability in suse rancher. EPSS estimates a 0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45.8% 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
0.56%
0%100%
Low · +0.18 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 05-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rancher's impersonation middleware (pkg/auth/requests/impersonate.go). An authenticated Rancher user with the default user global role can gain full administrative access to the Rancher control plane and transitively to all downstream clusters it manages. This issue affects Rancher: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.16, from 2.12.0 before 2.12.12, from 2.13.0 before 2.13.8, and from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.56%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

46%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.18 pp

From 0.38% 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

Suse1 product
  • rancher≥ 2.11.0, < 2.11.16 | ≥ 2.12.0, < 2.12.12 | ≥ 2.13.0, < 2.13.8 | ≥ 2.14.0, < 2.14.2

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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