CVE-2024-52280
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in SUSE rancher which allows users to watch resources they are not allowed to access, when they have at least some generic permissions on the type. This issue affects rancher: before 2175e09, before 6e30359, before c744f0b.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThis is an authorization bypass vulnerability in SUSE Rancher where users with only generic permissions on a resource type can watch (monitor) specific resources they don't have explicit access to, exposing sensitive information they shouldn't see.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Rancher versionRun 'kubectl get deployment rancher -n cattle-system -o jsonpath={.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}' or check the Rancher UI under the ?/About page to determine the installed versionAffected if The installed version predates the fixes (no fixed version explicitly provided, but versions after commits 2175e09, 6e30359, or c744f0b are patched)
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Check for watch permission configurationReview RBAC role bindings and ClusterRole definitions: 'kubectl get clusterrolebindings -o yaml' and 'kubectl get roles -A -o yaml' to identify roles with watch permissions on resource typesAffected if Users are assigned roles that grant watch access to resource types without explicit get/list permissions on specific instances
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Verify watch endpoint authorizationAs a user with only generic/list permissions on a resource type, attempt to establish a watch connection via the API: 'kubectl get <resource> --watch=true --request-timeout=30s' on resources they should not have explicit access toAffected if The watch connection succeeds and returns events for resources the user was not explicitly granted access to
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Inspect audit logs for unauthorized watch accessReview Rancher or Kubernetes audit logs for watch requests on resources where the requesting user lacks explicit individual resource permissionsAffected if Watch events are logged for users accessing resources beyond their explicit authorization scope
If users with limited/generic permissions can successfully watch resources they were not explicitly granted access to, the environment is affected by this authorization bypass.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade Rancher to versions containing the fixes (after commits 2175e09, 6e30359, or c744f0b) to enforce proper authorization checks on watch operations.
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- Review / QA3.0 h
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