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Vulnerability · Published Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-12542Foreman: command injection in foreman-tail

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity OS command injection in Red Hat Satellite 6 from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6 see references

Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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