CVE-2026-44946 (GCVE-0-2026-44946)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-30 12:14 – Updated: 2026-07-01 03:55
VLAI
Title
SAML Authentication Replay in Rancher
Summary
A SAML authentication replay vulnerability in Rancher's Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) handler did not enforce one-time use of SAML assertion, potentially allowing person in the middle attacks against Rancher, affecting Rancher 2.14.0 before 2.14.3,
Severity
9.5 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-30 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-294 - Authentication bypass by capture-replay
Assigner
suse CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 78/100 over 101 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE Rancher Affected: 2.14.0 , < 2.14.3 (semver)
Affected: 2.13.0 , < 2.13.7 (semver)
Affected: 2.12.0 , < 2.12.11 (semver)
Affected: 2.11.0 , < 2.11.15 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-06-29 12:07
Credits
Corban Villa corban.villa@berkeley.edu of a U.C. Berkeley security research project by: Austin Chu, Sohee Kim, and Corban Villa
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