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CVE-2026-12542
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 — Foreman: command injection in foreman-tail
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H H H 7.8 .0056 45.3 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 unspecified 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 unspecified 0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat
Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 unspecified 0:3.14.0.22-1.el9sat
Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 unspecified 0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat
Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 unspecified 0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat
Red Hat Satellite 6 unspecified —
TIMELINE
Jun 17 Reserved by redhat
Oct 1 Published (CNA: redhat)
Oct 16 RESCORED — CVE-2026-12542 (Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8). CVSS 5.3 → 7.8 (NVD).
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.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| June 17, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by redhat |
| October 1, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: redhat) |
| October 16, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2026-12542 (Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8). CVSS 5.3 → 7.8 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 6 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 | — | — | 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 | — | — | 0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 | — | — | 0:3.14.0.22-1.el9sat |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 | — | — | 0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 | — | — | 0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6 | — | — | — |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-12542 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Monday, October 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.
