CVE-2026-55997

Summary

Rancher issues long-lived registration tokens to authenticate nodes and agents joining a downstream cluster. These tokens were stored and exposed in plaintext with no expiration, so a malicious user could obtain one either through the Rancher API, etcd, stored automation, or direct file access on a node, and could use it at any time to register a rogue node into the cluster.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
rancherrancher2.14.0 < 2.14.4affected
rancherrancher2.13.0 < 2.13.8affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-312: CWE-312 Cleartext storage of sensitive information

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References