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CVE-2026-12542: Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 (exact versions not specified); +5 more affected products
CVE-2026-12542. CVSS 3.1 base score 5.3 (MEDIUM, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00554 (percentile 0.44393), scored 2026-10-06.
Affected technology
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite 6 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Component: Not specified by the source
Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
A local attacker can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, &, |) to execute arbitrary system commands. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 5.3/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as low.
- CWE
- CWE-78
- CCR priority
- 21.3 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L · Vendor/CNA
- EPSS
- 0.00554 · percentile 0.44393 · 2026-10-06
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 11:53:15.413517+00:00 UTC
- GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 13:20:35.851963+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 11:49:32.540646+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-12542.html