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GHSA-xr9q-h9c7-xw8q

HighCVSS 8.2 / 10
Published Feb 27, 2025·Last modified May 27, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

An unauthenticated stack overflow crash, leading to a denial of service (DoS), was identified in Rancher’s /v3-public/authproviders public API endpoint. A malicious user could submit data to the API which would cause the Rancher server to crash, but no malicious or incorrect data would actually be written in the API. The downstream clusters, i.e., the clusters managed by Rancher, are not affected by this issue.

This vulnerability affects those using external authentication providers as well as Rancher’s local authentication.

Patches

The patch includes the removal of unnecessary HTTP methods of the specific API.

Patched versions include releases v2.8.13, v2.9.7 and v2.10.3.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue. Users are recommended to upgrade, as soon as possible, to a version of Rancher Manager that contains the fix.

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Risk Scores
Base Score
8.2

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. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
7.5

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
0.58%

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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