What is CVE-2019-6287?

CVE-2019-6287 is a high-severity vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2019-04-10.

How severe is CVE-2019-6287?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in SUSE Rancher

CVE-2019-6287

In Rancher 2.0.0 through 2.1.5, project members have continued access to create, update, read, and delete namespaces in a project after they have been removed from it.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2019-04-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-06.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

SUSE Rancher

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

rancher.com/blog/2019/2019-01-29-explaining-security-vulnerabilities-addressed-… (Vendor Advisory)
forums.rancher.com/c/announcements (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-6287?: CVE-2019-6287 is a high-severity vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2019-04-10.
How severe is CVE-2019-6287?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.