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CVE-2024-52281 (GCVE-0-2024-52281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 08:31 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Title
Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Rancher UI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.9 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-18 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE rancher Affected: 2.9.0 , < 2.9.4 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-01-14 21:03
Credits
This issue was identified and reported by Bhavin Makwana from Workday’s Cyber Defence Team
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