{"schema_version":"1.7.3","id":"GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j","published":"2025-08-29T15:38:23Z","modified":"2025-09-08T14:59:25.509739Z","aliases":["CVE-2024-58259","GO-2025-3923"],"summary":"Rancher affected by unauthenticated Denial of Service","details":"### Impact\nA vulnerability has been identified within Rancher Manager in which it did not enforce request body size limits on certain public (unauthenticated) and authenticated API endpoints. This allows a malicious user to exploit this by sending excessively large payloads, which are fully loaded into memory during processing. This could result in:\n- Denial of Service (DoS): The server process may crash or become unresponsive when memory consumption exceeds available resources.\n- Unauthenticated and authenticated exploitation: While the issue was initially observed in unauthenticated `/v3-public/*` endpoints, the absence of request body size limits also affected several authenticated APIs, broadening the potential attack surface. It's worth noting that other areas in Rancher do implement safeguards: requests proxied to Kubernetes APIs are subject to built-in size limits enforced by the [Kubernetes API server itself](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/v1.33.4/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/config.go#L465), and Norman-based endpoints parse input with [predefined size caps](https://github.com/rancher/norman/blob/41dfae2f1a640c5ac9304e8b51e45a0f52cbdbb9/parse/read_input.go#L20-L31). However, the absence of similar protections in other Rancher APIs increased the risk of denial-of-service (DoS) scenarios in certain contexts.\n\nBy sending large binary or text payloads to vulnerable endpoints, a malicious actor could disrupt Rancher’s availability, impacting both administrative and user operations across managed clusters.\n \nPlease consult the associated  [MITRE ATT&CK - Technique - Network Denial of Service](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1498/) for further information about this category of attack.\n\n### Patches\nThis vulnerability is addressed by adding a default limit of `1MiB` and a setting in case this value needs to be increased.\n\nPatched versions of Rancher include releases `v2.12.1`, `v2.11.5`, `v2.10.9` and `v2.9.12`.\n\n### Workarounds\nIf you can't upgrade to a fixed version, please make sure that you are manually setting the request body size limits. For example, using nginx-ingress controller and only allowing requests via the ingress. For reference on how to configure the limit manually, please consult the [Knowledge Base](https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021309).\n\n### References\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n- Reach out to the [SUSE Rancher Security team](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/policy) for security related inquiries.\n- Open an issue in the [Rancher](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/new/choose) repository.\n- Verify with our [support matrix](https://www.suse.com/suse-rancher/support-matrix/all-supported-versions/) and [product support lifecycle](https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/).","affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/rancher/rancher","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/rancher/rancher"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"2.12.0"},{"fixed":"2.12.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/rancher/rancher","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/rancher/rancher"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"2.11.0"},{"fixed":"2.11.5"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/rancher/rancher","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/rancher/rancher"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"2.10.0"},{"fixed":"2.10.9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/rancher/rancher","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/rancher/rancher"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"2.9.0"},{"fixed":"2.9.11"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/rancher/rancher","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/rancher/rancher"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.0.0-20250813072957-aee95d4e2a41"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-4h45-jpvh-6p5j"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher/commit/aee95d4e2a41ba2df6f88c9634d4fe1f42dee4d9"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.10.9"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.11.5"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.12.1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.9.11"}],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-770"],"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2025-08-29T15:38:23Z","nvd_published_at":null,"severity":"HIGH"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H"}]}