Description
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.
Affected products
redhat: satellite; redhat: enterprise linux; theforeman: foreman
References7
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503 Vendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504 Vendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505 Vendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506 Vendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12542 Vendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489971 Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/7 Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.8
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 47 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-78
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