CVE-2026-44945 | BDVDB-2026-355459 Detail

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A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rancher's impersonation middleware (pkg/auth/requests/impersonate.go). An authenticated Rancher user with the default user global role can gain full administrative access to the Rancher control plane and transitively to all downstream clusters it manages. This issue affects Rancher: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.16, from 2.12.0 before 2.12.12, from 2.13.0 before 2.13.8, and from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2.

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1. Version 12026-08-05Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22026-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.