Medium severity6.6NVD Advisory· Published Apr 16, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2023-32197

Description

A Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE rancher in RoleTemplateobjects when external=true is set can lead to privilege escalation in specific scenarios.This issue affects rancher: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.14, from 2.8.0 before 2.8.5.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/rancher/rancherGo	>= 2.7.0, < 2.8.9	2.8.9
github.com/rancher/rancherGo	>= 2.9.0, < 2.9.3	2.9.3

Patches

ae8fa4989d17

https://github.com/rancher/ranchervia osv

7af1354e9b89

https://github.com/rancher/ranchervia osv

Vulnerability mechanics

Generated by null/stub on May 9, 2026. Inputs: CWE entries + fix-commit diffs from this CVE's patches. Citations validated against bundle.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-7h8m-pvw3-5gh4ghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32197ghsaADVISORY
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdWEB
github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-64jq-m7rq-768hnvdWEB
github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-7h8m-pvw3-5gh4ghsaWEB

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