CVE-2026-12542
highA flaw was found in Foreman.
Vendor / product: Redhat — satellite
A flaw was found in Foreman. The foreman-tail utility is vulnerable to OS command injection due to the unsafe use of the eval command. The script takes user-supplied arguments and incorporates them directly into a string that is then executed by eval to expand file paths. Because the input is not sanitized or quoted, a local attacker can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, &, |) to execute arbitrary system commands.
CVSS
7.8
7.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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: 2026-10-01 18:17
Modified: 2026-10-16 13:19
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:56 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 ≥6.16 <6.16.4, ≥6.17 <6.17.12, ≥6.19 <6.19.5, ≥6.18 <6.18.10, 6.0
theforeman / foreman ≥1.5.0 ≤3.19.1, 5.0.0
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/errata/RHSA-2026:74503
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12542
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489971
Patch / mitigation: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/7
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12542 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489971 secalert@redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:56 UTC · record ↗