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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-55997

Long-lived Rancher registration token exposed in plaintext

Description

Rancher issues long-lived registration tokens to authenticate nodes and agents joining a downstream cluster. These tokens were stored and exposed in plaintext with no expiration, so a malicious user could obtain one either through the Rancher API, etcd, stored automation, or direct file access on a node, and could use it at any time to register a rogue node into the cluster.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

rancher rancher

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.14.0 to < 2.14.4affected
  • 2.13.0 to < 2.13.8affected

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