Forman: foreman: remote code execution via command injection in websocket proxy

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6

  • all versionsaffected

• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8

  • 0:3.12.0.14-1.el8sat and laternot affected · rpm

• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9

  • 0:3.12.0.14-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm

• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9

  • 0:3.14.0.14-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:0.1.23-0.3.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:1.2.0-0.1.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:4.2.28-0.1.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:2.22.3-1.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:3.27.10-2.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:1.5.1-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:0.4.3-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:4.16.0.14-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
  • 0:0.13.0-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm

• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9

  • 0:3.16.0.12-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-1531Foreman-kubevirt: foreman_kubevirt: man-in-the-middle due to insecure default ssl verification
  32Monitor
• CVE-2026-1530Fog-kubevirt: fog-kubevirt: man-in-the-middle vulnerability due to disabled certificate validation
  32Monitor
• CVE-2025-10990Rexml: rexml: denial of service via inefficient regex parsing
  30Monitor
• CVE-2026-12515Katello: missing repository authorization in content_uploads exposes cross-product content existence
  17Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const host = req.body.host;2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

1const host = req.body.host;2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.