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Security advisory
The (1) Organization and (2) Locations APIs in Foreman before 1.11.3 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0-RC1 allow remote authenticated users with unlimited filters to bypass organization and location restrictions and read or modify data for an arbitrary organization by leveraging knowledge of the id of that organization.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-4451
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The (1) Organization and (2) Locations APIs in Foreman before 1.11.3 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0-RC1 allow remote authenticated users with unlimited filters to bypass organization and location restrictions and read or modify data for an arbitrary organization by leveraging knowledge of the id of that organization.
osv:CVE-2016-4451
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:53.761943990Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336",
"https://theforeman.org/security.html#2016-4451"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2016-08-19T21:59:08.337+00:00"
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