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CVE-2023-32186 — Suse Rancher Rke2 security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in SUSE RKE2 allows attackers with access to K3s servers apiserver/supervisor port (TCP 6443) cause denial of service. This issue affects RKE2: from 1.24.0 before 1.24.17+rke2r1, from v1.25.0 before v1.25.13+rke2r1, from v1.26.0 before v1.26.8+rke2r1, from v1.27.0 before v1.27.5+rke2r1, from v1.28.0 before v1.28.1+rke2r1.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2023-09-19
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

  • suse / rancher_rke2
  • suse / rancher_rke2 / 1.28.1+rke2r1

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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