CVE-2026-96659

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.19.1—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-10-01. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — Patch released this week
9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity91% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
22nd
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

October 1, 2026

Last Modified

October 2, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 1, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2536844 – (CVE-2026-96659) CVE-2026-96659 foreman: Excessive Permissions for Viewer Role on Preview

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536844
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-96659 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96659
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-96659(5)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatforeman-0:3.12.0.23-1.el9sat2026-10-01redhat
redhatforeman-0:3.16.0.25-1.el9sat2026-10-01redhat
redhatforeman-0:3.18.0.14-1.el9sat2026-10-01redhat
redhatyggdrasil-worker-forwarder-0:0.1.0-2.1.el9sat2026-10-01redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 46× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 06:40 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-04 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-04 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-04 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-03 22:25 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-03 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-03 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-03 18:16 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-03 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-10-03 14:06 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-03 14:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-03 09:58 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-03 09:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-03 05:51 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-03 05:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-03 01:43 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-03 01:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-02 21:36 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-02 21:36 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-02 21:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-10-02 17:29 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-02 17:29 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-02 17:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-10-02 17:00 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-02 17:00 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-02 17:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-02 16:54 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-02 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-02 12:47 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-02 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-02 08:40 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-02 08:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-02 04:33 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-02 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-02 00:25 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-02 00:25 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-02 00:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-01 23:37 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-01 23:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-01 20:41 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-01 20:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-01 17:27 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-01 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-01 16:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-96659?
CVE-2026-96659 is a critical vulnerability published on October 1, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-96659 disclosed?
CVE-2026-96659 was first published on October 1, 2026, with the most recent update on October 2, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-96659 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-96659 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (22nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-96659?
CVE-2026-96659 has a CVSS base score of 9.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-96659?
A fix for CVE-2026-96659 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-96659 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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