Rancher Release - v2.1.11 - Addresses Rancher CVE-2019-13209

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Release v2.1.11

Important

  • This release addresses a security vulnerability found in Rancher. The issue was found and reported by Matt Belisle and Alex Stevenson at Workiva, and applies to Rancher versions v2.0.0-v2.0.15, v2.1.0-v2.1.10, v2.2.0-v2.2.4. The fix for this vulnerability is also available in Rancher v2.2.5, and v2.0.16. Rancher v1.6 is not affected. The vulnerability is known as a Cross-Site Websocket Hijacking attack. This attack allows an exploiter to gain access to clusters managed by Rancher with the roles/permissions of a victim. It requires that a victim to be logged into a Rancher server and then access a third-party site hosted by the exploiter. Once that is accomplished, the exploiter is able to execute commands against the Kubernetes API with the permissions and identity of the victim. You can view the official CVE here [CVE-2019-13209]

rancher/rancher:v2.1.11 image is made available in server-charts/latest and server-chart/stable Rancher helm repos.

Known Major Issues

  • Clusters created through Rancher can sometimes get stuck in provisioning [#15970] [#15969] [#15695]
  • The upgrade for Rancher node-agent daemonset can sometimes get stuck due to pod removal failure on a Kubernetes side [#16722]

Major Bug Fixes since v2.1.10

  • Fixed an issue when node driver machine provisioning could fail with “something went wrong running an SSH command” error [21013]

Versions

NOTE - Image Name Changes: Please note that as of v2.0.0, our images will be rancher/rancher and rancher/rancher-agent. If you are using v1.6, please continue to use rancher/server and rancher/agent.

Images

  • rancher/rancher:v2.1.11
  • rancher/rancher-agent:v2.1.11

Tools

Kubernetes

Upgrades and Rollbacks

Rancher supports both upgrade and rollback starting with v2.0.2. Please note the version you would like to upgrade or rollback to change the Rancher version.

Due to the HA improvements introduced in the v2.1.0 release, the Rancher helm chart is the only supported method for installing or upgrading Rancher. Please use the Rancher helm chart to install HA Rancher. For details, see the HA Install - Installation Outline.

If you are currently using the RKE add-on install method, see Migrating from a RKE add-on install for details on how to move to using a helm chart.

Any upgrade from a version prior to v2.0.3, when scaling up workloads, new pods will be created [#14136] - In order to update scheduling rules for workloads [#13527], a new field was added to all workloads on update, which will cause any pods in workloads from previous versions to re-create.

Note: When rolling back, we are expecting you to rollback to the state at the time of your upgrade. Any changes post upgrade would not be reflected. In the case of rolling back using a Rancher single-node install, you must specify the exact version you want to change the Rancher version to, rather than using the default :latest tag.

Note: If you had the helm stable catalog enabled in v2.0.0, we’ve updated the catalog to start pointing directly to the Kubernetes helm repo instead of an internal repo. Please delete the custom catalog that is now showing up and re-enable the helm stable. [#13582]