CVE-2026-0980
highA flaw was found in rubyipmi, a gem used in the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) component of Red Hat Satellite.
Vendor / product: Redhat — satellite
A flaw was found in rubyipmi, a gem used in the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) component of Red Hat Satellite. An authenticated attacker with host creation or update permissions could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious username for the BMC interface. This could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the system.
CVSS
8.8
8.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-02-27 08:17
Modified: 2026-11-03 18:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 14 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 18:20 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
redhat / satellite 6.0
logicminds / rubyipmi ≤0.12.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0980
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429874
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5968 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5970 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5971 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0980 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429874 secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 18:20 UTC · record ↗