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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 ad…

Critical CVSS 9.1
CVECVE-2026-44945
First seen2026-08-06 06:15 UTC
Disclosed2026-08-05 10:17 UTC
Last updated2026-08-06 06:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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.

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

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Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD