CVE-2026-5136 PUBLISHED

Foreman: foreman: privilege escalation to administrator-level access via usergroup role assignment manipulation

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 30.03.2026 Published: 01.07.2026 Updated: 01.07.2026

A flaw was found in Foreman. The Usergroup model in Foreman does not properly validate role assignments against the calling user's permissions. This allows an authenticated user with usergroup management permissions to attach arbitrary roles, including administrative roles, to a user group and then add themselves as a member. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability leads to full privilege escalation, granting the attacker administrator-level access.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Satellite 6
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Satellite 6
Versions Default: affected

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Stanislav Fot (Aisle Research) for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Incorrect Privilege Assignment CWE