Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.17.9 Async Update
Red Hat Satellite 6.17.9 addresses multiple security vulnerabilities including privilege escalation, information disclosure, unauthorized configuration modification, denial of service, and symlink traversal issues. These vulnerabilities affect components such as Foreman, python-pillow, dynflow-utils, and yggdrasil-worker-forwarder. The update fixes critical issues like privilege escalation via usergroup role manipulation and cross-tenant SSH key disclosure. The advisory rates the update as important, indicating significant security impact.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This Red Hat Satellite 6.17.9 security advisory fixes several vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-5135 addresses unauthorized modification of host configurations due to broken access control in Foreman; CVE-2026-5136 involves privilege escalation to administrator-level access via usergroup role assignment manipulation; CVE-2026-5138 covers information disclosure from improper validation of nested request parameters; CVE-2026-5142 relates to cross-tenant private SSH key disclosure via taxonomy scoping bypass; CVE-2026-32282 concerns Root.Chmod following symlinks outside the root in dynflow-utils and yggdrasil-worker-forwarder; CVE-2026-40192 is a denial of service vulnerability in python-pillow via decompression bomb in FITS image processing. These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Satellite 6.17 and related components on RHEL 9. The advisory provides updated packages to remediate these issues.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities collectively allow attackers to escalate privileges to administrator level, disclose sensitive information including private SSH keys across tenants, modify host configurations without authorization, cause denial of service via image processing, and exploit symlink traversal to potentially affect system integrity. These impacts can compromise system confidentiality, integrity, and availability within environments managed by Red Hat Satellite.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official update for Red Hat Satellite 6.17.9 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users should apply this update promptly after ensuring all prior relevant errata have been applied. Detailed update instructions are available in the Red Hat Satellite documentation. No additional mitigations are indicated beyond applying the official patch.
Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.17.9 Async Update
Description
Red Hat Satellite 6.17.9 addresses multiple security vulnerabilities including privilege escalation, information disclosure, unauthorized configuration modification, denial of service, and symlink traversal issues. These vulnerabilities affect components such as Foreman, python-pillow, dynflow-utils, and yggdrasil-worker-forwarder. The update fixes critical issues like privilege escalation via usergroup role manipulation and cross-tenant SSH key disclosure. The advisory rates the update as important, indicating significant security impact.
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Technical Analysis
This Red Hat Satellite 6.17.9 security advisory fixes several vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-5135 addresses unauthorized modification of host configurations due to broken access control in Foreman; CVE-2026-5136 involves privilege escalation to administrator-level access via usergroup role assignment manipulation; CVE-2026-5138 covers information disclosure from improper validation of nested request parameters; CVE-2026-5142 relates to cross-tenant private SSH key disclosure via taxonomy scoping bypass; CVE-2026-32282 concerns Root.Chmod following symlinks outside the root in dynflow-utils and yggdrasil-worker-forwarder; CVE-2026-40192 is a denial of service vulnerability in python-pillow via decompression bomb in FITS image processing. These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Satellite 6.17 and related components on RHEL 9. The advisory provides updated packages to remediate these issues.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities collectively allow attackers to escalate privileges to administrator level, disclose sensitive information including private SSH keys across tenants, modify host configurations without authorization, cause denial of service via image processing, and exploit symlink traversal to potentially affect system integrity. These impacts can compromise system confidentiality, integrity, and availability within environments managed by Red Hat Satellite.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official update for Red Hat Satellite 6.17.9 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users should apply this update promptly after ensuring all prior relevant errata have been applied. Detailed update instructions are available in the Red Hat Satellite documentation. No additional mitigations are indicated beyond applying the official patch.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:34366
- Cve Count
- 6
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2026-5136","CVE-2026-5138","CVE-2026-5142","CVE-2026-32282","CVE-2026-40192"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a46ed1527e9c79719447072
Added to database: 07/02/2026, 22:58:29 UTC
Last enriched: 07/02/2026, 23:34:40 UTC
Last updated: 07/03/2026, 03:51:10 UTC
Views: 7
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