CVE-2026-96659: Red Hat Satellite 6.16 For Rhel 8

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Foreman. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user with low-level Viewer permissions to cause unauthorized information disclosure by submitting requests to template preview endpoints. By exploiting this issue, the user can access sensitive data, such as host root passwords. Furthermore, under insecure system configurations where Safemode protections are disabled, the flaw may allow the user to execute arbitrary commands as the Foreman system account.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 For Rhel 8: before 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat (fixed in 0:3.12.0.23-1.el8sat)
• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat (fixed in 0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat)
• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.14.0.22-1.el9sat (fixed in 0:3.14.0.22-1.el9sat); before 0:3.2.13-1.el9pc (fixed in 0:3.2.13-1.el9pc); before 0:3.1.62-1.el9pc (fixed in 0:3.1.62-1.el9pc); before 0:5.3.1-2.el9pc (fixed in 0:5.3.1-2.el9pc); before 0:0.6.0-1.el9pc (fixed in 0:0.6.0-1.el9pc); before 0:15.0.2-2.el9sat (fixed in 0:15.0.2-2.el9sat); …
• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat (fixed in 0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat)
• Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat (fixed in 0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat)

Published 2026-10-01. Last modified 2026-10-07.