Red Hat Satellite Content View History API privileges management

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Red Hat Satellite. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Content View History API. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-79654. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Red Hat Satellite (affected version unknown). This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Content View History API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in Katello where the Content View History API does not properly enforce authorization when accessing a Content View specified by the user. An authenticated user with permission to view Content Views in one organization may be able to access the lifecycle history of a Content View belonging to another organization by supplying its identifier to the affected API endpoint. This can result in unauthorized disclosure of Content View lifecycle information, including publication and promotion events, associated users, and timestamps.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-79654 since 08/25/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 08/26/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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

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• Red Hat

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• Satellite

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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