Red Hat Satellite 6 foreman-mcp-server improper authentication

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Satellite 6. It has been classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component foreman-mcp-server. Performing a manipulation results in improper authentication. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-12112. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Satellite 6. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code block of the component foreman-mcp-server. 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. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in the foreman-mcp-server. A session management vulnerability in the MCP Server allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack active administrative sessions due to an improper cache of authenticated client connections, by trusting a non-secret session ID without re-validating authentication tokens and by logging all newly created session IDs to standard logs. This issue can result in privilege escalation and infrastructure-wide code execution.

The advisory is shared at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-12112 since 06/12/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/24/2026).

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 vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-38599). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Red Hat

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• Satellite

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• 6

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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