CVE record · CVE-2026-96659

Foreman: excessive permissions for viewer role on preview

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0035 · 28th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 1 Oct 2026, 16:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 Package name: foreman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 Package name: foreman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: foreman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.14.0.22-1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: python-dynaconf https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.2.13-1.el9pc to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: python-gitpython https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.1.62-1.el9pc to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: python-lxml https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:5.3.1-2.el9pc to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: python-sqlparse https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:0.6.0-1.el9pc to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: rubygem-foreman_remote_execution https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:15.0.2-2.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: rubygem-hammer_cli https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.14.0-2.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: rubygem-katello https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.16.0.20-1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: rubygem-safemode https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.5.0-2.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: satellite https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:6.17.12-1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 Package name: yggdrasil-worker-forwarder https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:0.1.0-2.1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 Package name: foreman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 Package name: foreman https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat to before * rpm Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-96659
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-267
Tags: Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9
Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9
Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9
Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9
Privilege escalation
Published: 1 Oct 2026
Updated: 16 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.1	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0035, the 28th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 1 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96659 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536844 issue-trackingredhat

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