CVE-2021-36782: Suse Rancher

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows authenticated Cluster Owners, Cluster Members, Project Owners, Project Members and User Base to use the Kubernetes API to retrieve plaintext version of sensitive data. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher Rancher versions prior to 2.5.16; Rancher versions prior to 2.6.7.

Affected products

• Suse Rancher: from 2.5.0, before 2.5.16 (fixed in 2.5.16); from 2.6.0, before 2.6.7 (fixed in 2.6.7)

Published 2022-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.