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CVE-2026-96659: Foreman: excessive permissions for viewer role on preview

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-01 · updated 2026-10-16
• Weakness: CWE-267

Description

A flaw was found in Foreman. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user with low-level Viewer permissions to cause unauthorized information disclosure by submitting requests to template preview endpoints. By exploiting this issue, the user can access sensitive data, such as host root passwords. Furthermore, under insecure system configurations where Safemode protections are disabled, the flaw may allow the user to execute arbitrary commands as the Foreman system account.

Affected products

• Red Hat Satellite 6: from 6.16 before 6.16.4; from 6.17 before 6.17.12; from 6.19 before 6.19.5; from 6.18 before 6.18.10 — fixed in 6.16.4, 6.17.12, 6.18.10, 6.19.5
• foreman: from 1.9.0 through 3.19.1; 5.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat Satellite 6 6.16.4, 6.17.12, 6.18.10, 6.19.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96659
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536844
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/1

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