Critical
Foreman: excessive permissions for viewer role on preview
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-96659
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 14:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Foreman: excessive permissions for viewer role on preview
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 1 Oct 2026, 16:23 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2026-96659
Complete source record
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