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Vulnerability record · public intelligence
CVE-2023-22648
HIGH

Rancher's Azure AD permission changes are not reflected on active sessions

Published Jun 1, 2023 · Updated Nov 3, 2026

Severity · CVSSHIGH · Not scored
Known exploitationNot listed
EPSS / likelihood0.45%
QFinch risk scoreNot available

Original summary

Normalized public record · Updated Nov 3, 2026

Rancher's Azure AD permission changes are not reflected on active sessions

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QFinch assessment

A bug has been identified in which permission changes in Azure AD are not reflected to users while they are logged in the Rancher UI. This would cause the users to retain their previous permissions in Rancher, even if they change groups on Azure AD, for example, to a lower privileged group, or are removed from a group, thus retaining their access to Rancher instead of losing it.

Potential impact

This issue only affects Rancher instances with Azure AD integration enabled, regardless of the automatically refreshing settings which are enabled by default. The users that obtained a token (or kubeconfig) to access Rancher through the following sessions are affected by this issue: 1) Users using the Rancher UI. 2) Users using kubectl based on a kubeconfig downloaded through the Rancher UI. 3) Tokens created via the Rancher UI Create API Key feature. Note that the permission caching is persisted even when the Rancher Manager pod is restarted. The only way for a user to get the new permissions is to logout and login again.

Evidence: public source records

Affected products

Affected scope reported by the available public evidence
Affected package, product or rangeFix status
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Remediation

Apply the vendor-supported fixed release or mitigation, then verify the affected component is no longer reachable.

  1. Confirm the affected product and reachable code path exist in your environment.
  2. Apply the vendor-supported patch or mitigation from the primary advisory.
  3. Rescan the exact deployed revision and retain verification evidence.
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Evidence coverage

FIRST-EPSSCVE-LIST-V5NVD-MODIFIED
SSVC priority
MEDIUM
Confidence
Not available
Aliases
None reported

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Sources and record history

  1. bugzilla.suse.com ↗
  2. Security advisory ↗

Record history

Published Jun 1, 2023 · Last refreshed Nov 3, 2026