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

CriticalCVSS 9.1 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.34% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

Published
Oct 1, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 28th percentile

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Action score

36

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
36 / 40 · 9.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · redhat
9.1
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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
redhatsatellite
redhatenterprise linux
theforemanforeman

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 6.16 for RHEL 8

    • 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat and laternot affected · rpm

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9

    • 0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9

    • 0:3.14.0.22-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:3.2.13-1.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:3.1.62-1.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:5.3.1-2.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:0.6.0-1.el9pc and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:15.0.2-2.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:3.14.0-2.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:4.16.0.20-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:1.5.0-2.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
    • 0:6.17.12-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9

    • 0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm

  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9

    • 0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat and laternot affected · rpm
Affected versions · NVD (6)

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • redhat satellite6.16 and later · before 6.16.4
  • redhat satellite6.17 and later · before 6.17.12
  • redhat satellite6.19 and later · before 6.19.5
  • redhat satellite6.18 and later · before 6.18.10
  • theforeman foreman1.9.0 and later · up to 3.19.1 inclusive
  • theforeman foreman5.0.0

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2019-10137A path traversal flaw was found in spacewalk-proxy, all versions through 2.9, in the way the proxy processes cached client tokens.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2024-7923Puppet-pulpcore: an authentication bypass vulnerability exists in pulpcore
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2024-7012Puppet-foreman: an authentication bypass vulnerability exists in foreman
    39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-12544Oct 1, 2026 · Foreman: ssti and insecure deserialization in foreman-rake configuration
    30Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-96658Oct 1, 2026 · Foreman: foreman: arbitrary code execution via safemode sandbox bypass
    35Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-12542Oct 1, 2026 · Foreman: command injection in foreman-tail
    31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

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

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

  • CVE-2026-12112100 days apartForeman-mcp-server: mcp server: active session hijacking via insecure session state reuse
    31Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
low · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
Low

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-267 · Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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References

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