CVE-2021-25318

mediumpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.011 · 64 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.05% (64th) EPSS
CVSS 6.5 · medium
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cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Rancher allows users in the cluster to modify resources they should not have access to. This issue affects: Rancher versions prior to 2.5.9 ; Rancher versions prior to 2.4.16.

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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–8.8

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9
v3.18.8highAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · meissner@suse.deexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV
v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (9)

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advisories (2)

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  • GHSA-f9xf-jq4j-vqw4Rancher does not properly specify ApiGroup when creating Kubernetes RBAC resources2024-04-24ghsa · osvUS

    A vulnerability was discovered in Rancher versions 2.0 through the aforementioned fixed versions, where users were granted access to resources regardless of the resource's API group. For example Rancher should have allowed users access to `apps.catalog.cattle.io`, but instead incorrectly gave access to `apps.*`. Resource affected include: **Downstream clusters:** apiservices clusters clusterrepos persistentvolumes storageclasses **Rancher management cluster** apprevisions apps catalogtemplates catalogtemplateversions clusteralertgroups clusteralertrules clustercatalogs clusterloggings clustermonitorgraphs clusterregistrationtokens clusterroletemplatebindings clusterscans etcdbackups nodepools nodes notifiers pipelineexecutions pipelines pipelinesettings podsecuritypolicytemplateprojectbindings projectalertgroups projectalertrules projectcatalogs projectloggings projectmonitorgraphs projectroletemplatebindings projects secrets sourcecodeproviderconfigs There is not a direct mitigation besides upgrading to the patched Rancher versions.

  • GO-2024-2768Rancher does not properly specify ApiGroup when creating Kubernetes RBAC resources in github.com/rancher/rancher2024-06-10vendor · osvUS

    Rancher does not properly specify ApiGroup when creating Kubernetes RBAC resources in github.com/rancher/rancher. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/rancher/rancher before v2.4.16, from v2.5.0 before v2.5.9.

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published 2021-07-15modified 2026-06-17
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