Privilege escalation in SUSE Rancher
CVE-2024-22036
A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher where a cluster or node driver can be used to escape the chroot jail and gain root access to the Rancher container itself. In production environments, further privilege escalation is possible based on living off the land within the Rancher container itself. For the test and development environments, based on a –privileged Docker container, it is possible to escape the Docker container and gain execution access on the host system. This issue affects rancher: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.16, from 2.8.0 before 2.8.9, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.3.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (56.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 56.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- SUSE Rancher — versions 2.7.0, 2.8.0, 2.9.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-22036?
- CVE-2024-22036 is a critical-severity vulnerability in SUSE Rancher, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2025-04-16.
- How severe is CVE-2024-22036?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.