CVE-2026-96659: Foreman: excessive permissions for viewer role on preview
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.
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What to do now held facts and links
- Upgrade to the fixed version for your release line, or later: satellite 6.16.4; satellite 6.17.12; satellite 6.18.10; satellite 6.19.5 upper bounds of the CVE record's affected ranges
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
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.
- weakness
- CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
- affected
- Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8; Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9
- published ranges
- redhat satellite >= 6.16 < 6.16.4; redhat satellite >= 6.17 < 6.17.12; redhat satellite >= 6.19 < 6.19.5; redhat satellite >= 6.18 < 6.18.10; and 2 more on the CVE page
- first unaffected version, by branch
- satellite 6.16.4; satellite 6.17.12; satellite 6.18.10; satellite 6.19.5
- severity
- 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
- assigned by
- redhat
- published
- 2026-10-01
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Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026 | 0.00324 | |
| 3 Oct 2026 | 0.00322 | |
| 7 Oct 2026 | 0.00329 | |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 0.00324 |
4 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.00 on 2026-10-17 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- Held: satellite 6.16.4; satellite 6.17.12; satellite 6.18.10; satellite 6.19.5. A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2026-96659', '2026-10-29T23:59:59.999999Z', now());