CVE-2026-44945

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability allows authenticated users to gain full administrative access, bypassing role-based access controls.

Exploitability

Exploitation is relatively straightforward for an attacker with basic authentication credentials, requiring no additional user interaction.

Blast radius

If exploited, this vulnerability could lead to complete control over the Rancher control plane and all managed clusters, with severe consequences for the organization's infrastructure.

Detection

No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.

Prioritized remediation

Upgrade to Rancher 2.11.16 or later, 2.12.12 or later, 2.13.8 or later, or 2.14.2 or later.

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.