CVE-2019-10198

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-592

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in foreman-tasks before 0.15.7. Previously, commit tasks were searched through find_resource, which performed authorization checks. After the change to Foreman, an unauthenticated user can view the details of a task through the web UI or API, if they can discover or guess the UUID of the task.

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite 6: 6.6
The Foreman Project foreman-tasks: before 0.15.7 — fixed in 0.15.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: The Foreman Project foreman-tasks 0.15.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10198
https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/27275
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10198
https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/27275

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