{"id":"CVE-2019-12274","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-12274","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:41:49.136Z","title":"In Rancher 1 and 2 through 2.2.3, unprivileged users (if allowed to deploy nodes) can gain admin access to the Rancher management plane because node driver options intentionally allow posting certain data to the cloud.","description":"In Rancher 1 and 2 through 2.2.3, unprivileged users (if allowed to deploy nodes) can gain admin access to the Rancher management plane because node driver options intentionally allow posting certain data to the cloud. The problem is that a user could choose to post a sensitive file such as /root/.kube/config or /var/lib/rancher/management-state/cred/kubeconfig-system.yaml.","published":"2019-06-06T16:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:14:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-668","CWE-862"],"affected":["suse/rancher"],"epss":{"score":0.01122,"percentile":0.66049,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://forums.rancher.com/c/announcements","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://forums.rancher.com/t/rancher-release-v2-2-4-addresses-rancher-cve-2019-12274-and-cve-2019-12303/14466","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://forums.rancher.com/c/announcements","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://forums.rancher.com/t/rancher-release-v2-2-4-addresses-rancher-cve-2019-12274-and-cve-2019-12303/14466","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12274","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}