CVE-2026-12542 (GCVE-0-2026-12542)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-01 17:14
Modified
2026-10-07 06:12
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CWE
- CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 |
Unaffected: 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat < * cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6.16::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6.16::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_capsule:6.16::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_capsule:6.16::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_utils:6.16::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:satellite_utils:6.16::el9 |
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