Vulnerability in Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8

[ Description ]Official description

A flaw was found in Foreman. OS command injection vulnerabilities exist in the foreman-rake db:dump and db:import_dump tasks. The application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input in the destination parameter (during backups) and the file parameter (during imports) before passing them to a Ruby system() call for execution. An attacker with permissions to execute foreman-rake (e.g., via a restricted sudo configuration) can append malicious shell commands to the provided file paths.

[ 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-2026-12541Vendor Advisory
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgiIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory
• www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/8Third Party Advisory