CVE-2026-94290

Privilege escalation to cluster-admin on the Rancher local cluster through Fleet's agent management controller

Published Nov 2, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 9.1 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
SUSE Rancher Fleet clusters reference a kubeconfig secret that the controller uses to install and manage a Fleet agent on the target cluster. The controller did not sufficiently restrict which kubeconfig secrets a Fleet Cluster object was allowed to reference. As a result, a Fleet cluster defined in a namespace an ordinary user controls could be associated with administrative credentials for the management cluster itself, causing the controller to manage the management cluster on that user's behalf and to run that user's Fleet content there with elevated privileges. This affects SUSE Rancher Fleet 0.16.0 up to 0.16.3, 0.15.0 up to 0.15.8, 0.14.0 up to 0.14.12, 0.13.0 up to 0.13.17 and possible older versions.

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description SUSE Rancher Fleet clusters reference a kubeconfig secret that the controller uses to install and manage a Fleet agent on the target cluster. The controller did not sufficiently restrict which kubeconfig secrets a Fleet Cluster object was allowed to reference. As a result, a Fleet cluster defined in a namespace an ordinary user controls could be associated with administrative credentials for the management cluster itself, causing the controller to manage the management cluster on that user's behalf and to run that user's Fleet content there with elevated privileges. This affects SUSE Rancher Fleet 0.16.0 up to 0.16.3, 0.15.0 up to 0.15.8, 0.14.0 up to 0.14.12, 0.13.0 up to 0.13.17 and possible older versions.
Title Privilege escalation to cluster-admin on the Rancher local cluster through Fleet's agent management controller
First Time appeared Suse
Suse rancher
Weaknesses CWE-250
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:suse:rancher:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Suse
Suse rancher
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
suse
Published
Updated
Nov 3, 2026, 4:55 AM
Reserved
Sep 21, 2026, 9:33 AM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Nov 2, 2026, 4:17 PM
Modified
Nov 3, 2026, 5:18 AM