Fleet applies namespace labels and annotations without the bundle's service account privileges (CVE-2026-93540) | HOL Guard CVE

Medium · CVSS 6.5CVE-2026-93540

Fleet applies namespace labels and annotations without the bundle's service account privileges

Answer in brief

CVE-2026-93540 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in Fleet applies namespace labels and annotations without the bundle's service account privileges. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps SUSE/Rancher (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.

Analysis pending evidence review

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Published Sep 28, 2026Updated Sep 28, 2026Source checked Sep 28, 2026First seen by HOL Sep 28, 2026Material review Sep 28, 2026

Upstream Advisory

Key facts

Risk: Medium · CVSS 6.5
Exploitation: Not marked as known exploited
Affected software: 1 mapped package or product
Fix availability: Available

Why this deserves its current priority

CVSS is 6.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.

Analysis status

Analysis pending evidence review

Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.

Affected scope and exposure questions

The current feed maps SUSE/Rancher (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.

Mapped affected packages and fixed versions
Package	Affected range	Fixed version
SUSE/Ranchergeneric	>=0.16.0 <0.16.1 \|\| >=0.15.0 <0.15.7 \|\| >=0.14.0 <0.14.11 \|\| >=0.13.0 <0.13.16	0.16.1, 0.15.7, 0.14.11, 0.13.16

Recommended response

Check inventory. Check lockfiles and deployed manifests for SUSE/Rancher.
Review the reported fix. Update SUSE/Rancher to 0.16.1 if you use the affected versions. Test the change in a non-production environment first.

Evidence timeline and material changes

Published upstream
Sep 28, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:record
Source modified
Sep 28, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:record
First seen by HOL
Sep 28, 2026

Sources and claim methodology

GitHub security advisorygithub.com

Upstream source description

A privilege mismatch was found in Fleet. When a bundle requested namespace labels or annotations through the namespaceLabels and namespaceAnnotations options, the resulting namespace metadata update was not subject to the same authorization as the rest of the bundle's deployment. As a result, a bundle could change labels and annotations on a target namespace even when the identity it was pinned to was not authorized to modify that namespace. This affected SUSE Rancher Fleet 0.16 before 0.16.2, 0.15 before 0.15.7, 0.14 before 0.14.11, 0.13 before 0.13.16 and potentially older versions.

Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.