# CVE-2025-23389: Rancher does not Properly Validate Account Bindings in SAML Authentication Enables User Impersonation on First Login

- Also known as: GHSA-MQ23-VVG7-XFM4, GO-2025-3490
- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.13, 2.9.7, 2.10.3
- Published: 2025-04-11 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- github.com/rancher/rancher: from 2.8.0, fixed in 2.8.13; from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.7; from 2.10.0, fixed in 2.10.3
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): from 2.8.0, fixed in 2.8.13
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.7
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): from 2.10.0, fixed in 2.10.3
- github.com/rancher/rancher (Go): all versions

## Description

A Improper Access Control vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a local user to impersonate other identities through SAML Authentication on first login. This issue affects rancher: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.13, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.7, from 2.10.0 before 2.10.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on github.com/rancher/rancher, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.13, 2.9.7, 2.10.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-23389
- https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-mq23-vvg7-xfm4

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