CVE•Published 2026-08-05•Modified 2026-09-01•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-44945
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
31
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 69% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rancher's impersonation middleware (pkg/auth/requests/impersonate.go). An authenticated Rancher user with the default user global role can gain full administrative access to the Rancher control plane and transitively to all downstream clusters it manages. This issue affects Rancher: from 2.11.0 before 2.11.16, from 2.12.0 before 2.12.12, from 2.13.0 before 2.13.8, and from 2.14.0 before 2.14.2.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-05
Modified 2026-09-01
External references
Search for exposed instances
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More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-44945Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-44945Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
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CVE-2026-44945Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-44945GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-44945" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-44945 on GitHub.