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CVE-2018-20321
An issue was discovered in Rancher 2 through 2.1.5. Any project member with access to the default namespace can mount the netes-default…
High8.8EPSS 1.8%
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in Rancher 2 through 2.1.5. Any project member with access to the default namespace can mount the netes-default service account in a pod, and then use that pod to execute administrative privileged commands against the k8s cluster. This could be mitigated by isolating the default namespace in a separate project, where only cluster admins can be given permissions to access. As of 2018-12-20, this bug affected ALL clusters created or imported by Rancher.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/rancher/rancherGHSA-9qq2-xhmc-h9qr (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://rancher.com/blog/2019/2019-01-29-explaining-security-vulnerabilities-addressed-in-rancher-v2-1-6-and-v2-0-11/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://forums.rancher.com/c/announcements (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9qq2-xhmc-h9qr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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