SUSE Rancher <=2.5.15, <=2.6.6 Cleartext Sensitive Data via API
CVE-2021-36782 Published on September 7, 2022
Rancher: Plaintext storage and exposure of credentials in Rancher API and cluster.management.cattle.io object
A Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners, Project Members and User Base to use the Kubernetes API to retrieve plaintext version of sensitive data. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.16; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.7.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2021-36782 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
The application stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Because the information is stored in cleartext, attackers could potentially read it. Even if the information is encoded in a way that is not human-readable, certain techniques could determine which encoding is being used, then decode the information.
Products Associated with CVE-2021-36782
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Affected Versions
SUSE Rancher:- Version Rancher and below 2.5.16 is affected.
- Version Rancher and below 2.6.7 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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