CVE-2026-44945

criticalpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.006 · 46 %ileDEEU
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.56% (46th) EPSS
CVSS 9.1 · critical
Is it mine?
12 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.1
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 8.3–9.1

v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · meissner@suse.deexploitability 2.3 · impact 6
v3.18.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-441USCWE-497US
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affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2026-2600Rancher: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-07-30csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Rancher ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, und um Informationen offenzulegen.

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also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvdenisa_euvdcert_bundNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2026-08-05modified 2026-10-23
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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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