Description
An issue was discovered in Rancher 2 through 2.1.5. Any project member with access to the default namespace can mount the netes-default service account in a pod, and then use that pod to execute administrative privileged commands against the k8s cluster. This could be mitigated by isolating the default namespace in a separate project, where only cluster admins can be given permissions to access. As of 2018-12-20, this bug affected ALL clusters created or imported by Rancher.
Published: 2019-04-10
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1305 An issue was discovered in Rancher 2 through 2.1.5. Any project member with access to the default namespace can mount the netes-default service account in a pod, and then use that pod to execute administrative privileged commands against the k8s cluster. This could be mitigated by isolating the default namespace in a separate project, where only cluster admins can be given permissions to access. As of 2018-12-20, this bug affected ALL clusters created or imported by Rancher.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9qq2-xhmc-h9qr Access Control Bypass
History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00387}

epss

{'score': 0.00367}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:58:18.909Z

Reserved: 2018-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-20321

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-04-10T14:29:00.267

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:01:13.620

Link: CVE-2018-20321

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