Foreman
CVE-2023-0118
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization OS command sanitization, avoid shell exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An arbitrary code execution flaw was found in Foreman. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Avoid passing user input to shell commands. Use language-specific APIs instead of shell execution. Apply strict input validation with allowlists.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as OS Command Injection (CWE-78), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host. An arbitrary code execution flaw was found in Foreman. This flaw allows an admin user to bypass safe mode in templates and execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system. Affected products include: Theforeman Foreman, Redhat Satellite.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An arbitrary code execution flaw was found in Foreman. This flaw allows an admin user to bypass safe mode in templates and execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Eval injection vulnerability in the create method in the Bookmarks controller in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote
The create method in app/controllers/users_controller.rb in Foreman before 1.2.0-RC2 allows remote authenticated users w
The Smart-Proxy in Foreman before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via
Authenticated remote code execution in Foreman and Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 allows an attacker who holds only l
An authentication bypass flaw was found in the smart_proxy_dynflow component used by Foreman. Rated critical severity (C
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search auto-completion functionality in Foreman before 1.4.4 allows remo
Eval injection vulnerability in tftp_api.rb in the TFTP module in the Smart-Proxy in Foreman before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x be
Authenticated users with low-level Viewer permissions in Red Hat Satellite 6.19 (and upstream Foreman) can exploit templ
An arbitrary code execution flaw was found in Foreman. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotel
Foreman 1.4.0 before 1.5.0 does not properly restrict access to provisioning template previews, which allows remote atta
Command injection in the Red Hat Satellite job invocation API (/api/v2/job_invocations), shipped via the rubygem-foreman
Foreman since version 1.5 is vulnerable to an incorrect authorization check due to which users with user management perm
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