CVE-2026-44940Service token exposure and potential privilege escalation in SUSE Observability

Description

The rancher-extension-stackstate extension in SUSE Observability exposes service tokens in plain configuration or insecure locations rather than managing them securely. An attacker with minimal access could obtain the token to gain unauthorized access or escalate privileges within the observability environment.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44940
• https://github.com/StackVista/rancher-extension-stackstate/security/advisories/GHSA-7c27-jc6w-pw95