CVE-2021-32001

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (6.5) in suse. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

K3s in SUSE Rancher allows any user with direct access to the datastore, or a copy of a datastore backup, to extract the cluster's confidential keying material (cluster certificate authority private keys, secrets encryption configuration passphrase, etc.) and decrypt it, without having to know the token value. This issue affects: SUSE Rancher K3s version v1.19.12+k3s1, v1.20.8+k3s1, v1.21.2+k3s1 and prior versions; RKE2 version v1.19.12+rke2r1, v1.20.8+rke2r1, v1.21.2+rke2r1 and prior versions.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-311
Published: 2021-07-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

suse:rancher_k3s
suse:rancher_rke2

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188453
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188453

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