CVE-2025-23391 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2025-23391 at MITRE

Description

A Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in SUSE rancher allows a Restricted Administrator to change the password of Administrators and take over their accounts.
This issue affects rancher: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.14, from 2.9.0 before 2.9.8, from 2.10.0 before 2.10.4.

Upstream Security Advisories:

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-8p83-cpfg-fj3g

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	CNA (SUSE)	SUSE
Base Score	9.1	9.1
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network	Network
Attack Complexity	Low	Low
Privileges Required	High	High
User Interaction	None	None
Scope	Changed	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	High	High
Integrity Impact	High	High
Availability Impact	High	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1239007 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

GHSA-8p83-cpfg-fj3g, published Mon Mar 31 14:56:29 CEST 2025
openSUSE-SU-2025:14970-1, published Sat Apr 5 18:50:40 2025

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
Image SLE-Micro Image SLE-Micro-Azure Image SLE-Micro-BYOS Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2 Image SLE-Micro-EC2	`cloud-init >= 25.1.3-slfo.1.1_1.1` `cloud-init-config-suse >= 25.1.3-slfo.1.1_1.1`
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0	`govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250402T160203-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-14970

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1	govulncheck-vulndb	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1	govulncheck-vulndb	Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Mar 6 20:00:33 2025
CVE page last modified: Thu Feb 26 16:11:32 2026