Rancher: SAML Assertion Replay
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-294.
Summary
A flaw was found in Rancher Manager. The SAML assertion replay protection introduced by the fix for CVE-2026-44946 recorded consumed assertion IDs in a per-process cache, so each replica only detected replays that reached the same pod. In a high-availability deployment, an attacker holding a captured assertion could replay it once against every other replica to obtain additional authenticated sessions as the victim. This issue affects Rancher: before 2.15.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Rancher (SUSE) Fixed in 2.15.1
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
SUSE Rancher 2.15.1
5 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 4 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-50041 Rancher: Ownership-less ClusterRole overwrite via attacker-controlled cr-name annotation on GlobalRolePriority MEDIUM 40
- TI-2026-52724 Rancher: Cross-Cluster Secret Leakage via Namespace projectId Annotation SpoofingPriority LOW 34
- TI-2026-52726 Rancher: ext.cattle.io/v1 Token store: cross-user token disclosure via label-selector scoping bypassPriority LOW 31
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-75034
- 2026-11-03 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
More SUSE Rancher vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-14903 Rancher: Plaintext storage and exposure of credentials in Rancher API and cluster.management.cattle.io object CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2022-21489 Rancher: Non-random authentication token CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-08380 An issue was discovered that affects the following versions of Rancher: v2.0.0 through… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-08827 Improper privilege management in SUSE Rancher CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2023-08823 Improper privilege management in SUSE Rancher CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2022-21491 Rancher: Exposure of sensitive fields CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
Sources
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