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GHSA-28g7-896h-695v

GitHub Security Advisory

Rancher's Failure to delete orphaned role bindings does not revoke project level access from group based authentication

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
This vulnerability only affects customers using group based authentication in Rancher versions up to and including 2.4.17, 2.5.11 and 2.6.2.

When removing a Project Role associated to a group from a project, the bindings that grant access to cluster scoped resources for those subjects do not get deleted. This happens due to an incomplete authorization logic check. A user who is a member of an affected group with authenticated access to Rancher could use this to access resources they should no longer have access to. The exposure level will depend on the original permission level granted to the affected project role.

### Patches
Patched versions include releases 2.4.18, 2.5.12, 2.6.3 and later versions.

### Workarounds
Limit access in Rancher to trusted users. There is not a direct mitigation besides upgrading to the patched Rancher versions.

### References
Cluster and project roles documentation for Rancher [2.6](https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.6/en/admin-settings/rbac/cluster-project-roles/), [2.5](https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.5/en/admin-settings/rbac/cluster-project-roles/) and [2.4](https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.0-v2.4/en/admin-settings/rbac/cluster-project-roles/).

### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Reach out to [SUSE Rancher Security team](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/policy) for security related inquiries.
* Open an issue in [Rancher](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/new/choose) repository.
* Verify our [support matrix](https://www.suse.com/suse-rancher/support-matrix/all-supported-versions/) and [product support lifecycle](https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/).

Affected Packages

Go github.com/rancher/rancher
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 2.4.18)
Go github.com/rancher/rancher
Affected versions: 2.5.0 (fixed in 2.5.12)
Go github.com/rancher/rancher
Affected versions: 2.6.0 (fixed in 2.6.3)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-28g7-896h-695v
Published
April 24, 2024 9:01 PM
Last Modified
July 8, 2024 8:42 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Go
Primary Package
github.com/rancher/rancher
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 27, 2025 6:35 AM

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