CVE-2025-67601 Rancher CLI skips TLS verification on Rancher CLI login command
Rancher CLI bypasses TLS verification when using self-signed certificates with specific flags, allowing potential man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-67601?
CVE-2025-67601 is a high-severity vulnerability in SUSE rancher, published on 25 Feb 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher Manager, where using self-signed CA certificates and passing the -skip-verify flag to the Rancher CLI login command without also passing the –cacert flag results in the CLI attempting to fetch CA certificates stored in Rancher’s setting cacerts.
Weakness: CWE-295
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-67601?
11 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/rancher/rancher. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | All versions | None |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | All versions | 0.0.0-20260129092249-bb0625fd1896 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | All versions | 0.0.0-20260129092249-bb0625fd1896 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.10.0 | 2.10.11 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.10.0 | 2.10.11 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.11.0 | 2.11.10 |
5 more packages
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.11.0 | 2.11.10 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.12.0 | 2.12.6 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.12.0 | 2.12.6 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.13.0 | 2.13.2 |
github.com/rancher/rancher Go | From 2.13.0 | 2.13.2 |
Products include Suse Rancher.
How do I fix CVE-2025-67601?
Upgrade github.com/rancher/rancher to a fixed version for your release line: 0.0.0-20260129092249-bb0625fd1896, 2.10.11, 2.11.10 or 2.12.6.
Is CVE-2025-67601 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-67601 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in SUSE rancher
- CVE-2023-22647 Rancher vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via manipulation of Secrets
- CVE-2023-22651 Rancher Webhook is misconfigured during upgrade process
- CVE-2022-43757 Rancher: Exposure of sensitive fields
- CVE-2021-36782 Rancher: Plaintext storage and exposure of credentials in Rancher API and cluster.management.cattle.io object
- CVE-2021-36783 Rancher: Failure to properly sanitize credentials in cluster template answers
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mc24-7m59-4q5p, GO-2026-4393.