Red Hat Satellite 6 up to 6.13/6.14/6.15/22.0 Foreman improper authentication

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Red Hat Satellite 6 up to 6.13/6.14/6.15/22.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Foreman. The manipulation results in improper authentication. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-7012. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Red Hat Satellite 6 up to 6.13/6.14/6.15/22.0. Affected is an unknown code block of the component Foreman. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An authentication bypass vulnerability has been identified in Foreman when deployed with Gunicorn versions prior to 22.0, due to the puppet-foreman configuration. This issue arises from Apache's mod_proxy not properly unsetting headers because of restrictions on underscores in HTTP headers, allowing authentication through a malformed header. This flaw impacts all active Satellite deployments (6.13, 6.14 and 6.15) and could potentially enable unauthorized users to gain administrative access.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-7012 since 07/23/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/09/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210402 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.0 (Critical) (RHSA-2024:8906)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (210402) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-48827). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• Satellite 6

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14
• 6.15
• 22.0

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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