Vulnerability in Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8

[ Description ]Official description

A flaw was found in Foreman. A command injection vulnerability exists in the foreman-rake errors:fetch_log task. The request_id parameter is passed to an underlying system command (typically grep) without adequate shell neutralization. While the task is intended to fetch specific log entries, an attacker with sudo permissions to execute this rake task can inject shell metacharacters (such as ;, ", or |) to break out of the intended command and execute arbitrary code.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund1 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-3712

  Foreman: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-12540CVE-2026-12541CVE-2026-12542+4 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503Vendor Advisory
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504Vendor Advisory
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505Vendor Advisory
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506Vendor Advisory
• access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12540Vendor Advisory
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgiIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory
• www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/9Third Party Advisory