There was a vulnerability found today in some older Kubernetes versions. There are already patched versions available. If you have 1.11.3 installed from rke, you can update to 1.11.5 by editing your cluster.yml, replacing the kubernetes image:
kubernetes: rancher/hyperkube:v1.11.3-rancher1
with
kubernetes: rancher/hyperkube:v1.11.5-rancher1
And then run ‘rke up’ again.
This is from this Github ticket.