Incorrect authentication caching in the team member ship expansion of the Rancher Github authentication provider caused it granting principal access to any logged in user, in 2.13 before 2.13.6 and 2.14 before 2.14.2.
CVE-2026-41053
This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4%, top 71% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 29.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 30, 2026
Last Modified
July 2, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jun 30, 2026Over-inclusive team membership expansion in GitHub App authentication provider · Advisory · rancher/rancher · GitHub
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-4j6x-2764-m8ghVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-41053(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 21× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 23:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 11:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 08:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 19:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 06:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-03 18:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 05:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 16:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 03:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 14:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 01:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 12:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 12:32 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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