CVE-2026-12542 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-12542: Foreman: command injection in foreman-tail

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Satellite 6
Weakness CWE-78
Published October 1, 2026
Last update October 1, 2026

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in Foreman. The foreman-tail utility is vulnerable to OS command injection due to the unsafe use of the eval command. The script takes user-supplied arguments and incorporates them directly into a string that is then executed by eval to expand file paths. Because the input is not sanitized or quoted, a local attacker can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, &, |) to execute arbitrary system commands.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 1, 2026 CVE published
October 1, 2026 Record updated

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