CVE-2026-96659: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9
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.
CVE-2026-96659: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9
Description
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.1critical
Affected software
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-23T14:46:49.272Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503","vendor":"Red Hat"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96659","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6abe8b0aa43b0b3b89c7d5a6
Added to database: 10/01/2026, 16:32:10 UTC
Last updated: 10/01/2026, 16:32:10 UTC
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