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Critical Rancher Fleet Vulnerability Allows Full Kubernetes Cluster Takeover

Summary

SUSE Rancher Fleet contains a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-41050) that allows attackers to bypass multi-tenant isolation and gain cluster-admin privileges by exploiting the Helm deployer's failure to enforce ServiceAccount impersonation.

Take Action:

If you're using Rancher Fleet to manage Kubernetes clusters, update ASAP to a patched version (Fleet 0.11.13/0.12.14/0.13.10/0.14.5, or Rancher 2.10.11/2.11.13/2.12.9/2.13.5/2.14.1). If you can't patch right away, disable Fleet-monitored repositories for untrusted tenants, audit your Helm charts for use of the lookup function, and rotate any secrets that may have been exposed.


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