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CRITICAL

CVE-2021-25320

CVE-2021-25320 — Rancher: Cloud credentials can be used through proxy API by users without access

A Improper Access Control vulnerability in Rancher, allows users in the cluster to make request to cloud providers by creating requests with the cloud-credential ID. Rancher in this case would attach the requested credentials without further checks This issue affects: Rancher versions prior to 2.5.9; Rancher versions prior to 2.4.16.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, suse

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

rancher

rancher

CVSS base

9.9

CRITICAL

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

rancher

Products (1)

rancher

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
9.9CVSS 3.1CRITICAL——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-284

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1027.009Obfuscated Files or Information: Embedded Payloads
  • T1546.004Event Triggered Execution: .bash_profile and .bashrc
  • T1546.016Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • rancherevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-284other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.