Red Hat Satellite 6 up to 22.0 Foreman improper authentication

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Red Hat Satellite 6 up to 4.0/6.13/6.14/6.15/22.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Foreman. This manipulation causes improper authentication. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-7923. The attack can only be executed locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Red Hat Satellite 6 up to 4.0/6.13/6.14/6.15/22.0. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Foreman. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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) which are using Pulpcore version 4.0+ and could potentially enable unauthorized users to gain administrative access.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-7923 since 08/19/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/13/2025).

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-2024-48867). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• Satellite 6

Version

• 4.0
• 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

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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