CVE-2026-44935 is a critical authorization flaw in the Helm Deployer component of SUSE Rancher Fleet caused by missing validation of valuesFrom references. In affected versions, a tenant owner can supply valuesFrom references that are not properly constrained to the intended namespace or tenant boundary. In multi-tenant downstream Kubernetes cluster deployments, this allows a malicious tenant to bypass Fleet isolation controls and reference arbitrary ConfigMaps or Secrets across namespaces. The issue affects Rancher Fleet 0.15 before 0.15.2, 0.14 before 0.14.6, 0.13 before 0.13.11, and 0.12 before 0.12.15. Supporting reporting also indicates the flaw can be abused through Helm operations to create cluster-wide resources without proper administrative approval.
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A critical cross-namespace secret disclosure vulnerability in SUSE Rancher Fleet Helm Deployer caused by missing validation of `valuesFrom` references, allowing one tenant to access another tenant's fleet credentials.
A critical cross-namespace secret disclosure and tenant-isolation bypass in Fleet's Helm deployer that allows malicious tenants to access config maps or secrets across namespaces and create cluster-wide resources.
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