CVE-2021-36782 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2021-36782

Rancher: Plaintext storage and exposure of credentials in Rancher API and cluster.management.cattle.io object

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Florian Struck (from Continum AG) and Marco Stuurman (from Shock Media B.V.)

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Rancher
Vulnerable Versions:
Rancher

Timeline

Official Publish: September 7th, 2022
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)