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GHSA-mjcp-rj3c-36fr

MediumCVSS 4.7 / 10
Published Sep 26, 2025·Last modified Oct 23, 2025
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Description

Impact

A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher Manager whereby Impersonate-Extra-* headers are being sent to an external entity, for example amazonaws.com, via the /meta/proxy Rancher endpoint. These headers may contain identifiable and/or sensitive information e.g. email addresses.

If the authentication provider is configured to have email or other sensitive and/or identifiable information as part of the username and principal ID then when a new cloud credential is being created in Rancher Manager this information is sent to an external entity such as amazonaws.com, in case of an AWS cloud credentials, in Impersonate-Extra-Username and/or Impersonate-Extra-Principalid headers. Please note that neither password, password hashes or Rancher’s related authentication tokens are leaked in those requests.

The entities to which such information is sent to are limited by the whitelisted domains specified in nodedrivers.management.cattle.io objects.

For example, the Amazon EC2 node driver contains the following whitelisted domains:

  • iam.amazonaws.com
  • iam.us-gov.amazonaws.com
  • iam.%.amazonaws.com.cn
  • iam.global.api.aws
  • ec2.%.amazonaws.com
  • ec2.%.amazonaws.com.cn
  • ec2.%.api.aws
  • eks.%.amazonaws.com
  • eks.%.amazonaws.com.cn
  • eks.%.api.aws
  • kms.%.amazonaws.com
  • kms.%.amazonaws.com.cn
  • kms.%.api.aws

While the DigitalOcean driver contains the following whitelisted domain:

  • api.digitalocean.com

Patches

This vulnerability is addressed by filtering all Impersonate-* headers from the original request by the /meta/proxy endpoint.

Patched versions of Rancher include releases v2.12.2, v2.11.6, v2.10.10, and v2.9.12.

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

References

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Risk Scores
Base Score
4.7

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. The attacker needs the user to perform some action, like clicking a link. The vulnerability can affect other systems as well, not just the initial system. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information.

Threat Intelligence
4.3

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
0.33%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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