CVE-2026-12542 is an OS command injection vulnerability in Foreman's foreman-tail utility. The utility incorporates user-supplied arguments into a string executed by eval to expand file paths without adequately sanitizing or quoting the input. A local attacker can supply shell metacharacters to inject and execute arbitrary system commands.
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Command injection vulnerability in Foreman's foreman-tail utility. Addressed by the Foreman update included in RHSA-2026:74504.
A command-injection vulnerability affects the foreman-tail utility. Red Hat includes a fix in the Satellite 6.17.12 update.
A command injection vulnerability affects the foreman-tail utility. Updated Foreman packages are included in the advisory.
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