CVE-2026-12405 Red Hat Satellite - Command Injection

Red Hat Satellite API in rubygem-foreman_remote_execution contains a command injection caused by improper sanitization of the effective_user parameter in job templates marked as overridable, letting attackers with job execution permissions run arbitrary shell commands with execution user privileges, exploit requires permission to execute job templates.

CVSS base score 8.8 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
1.54% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Command Injection
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
1 October 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-78

Vendor fix

Update to the latest version of rubygem-foreman_remote_execution with the fix applied.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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