Red Hat Satellite Template Revision Endpoint improper authorization

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Satellite. It has been declared as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Template Revision Endpoint. The manipulation results in improper authorization. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-81658. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Satellite (version now known). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Template Revision Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in Foreman. The template revision endpoint does not enforce object-level authorization when retrieving an audited template revision. An authenticated, low privileged user with a template-related permission, such as view_ptables, can obtain historical template contents belonging to another organization or location by supplying the corresponding audit ID. This can result in unauthorized disclosure of historical template contents, which may contain sensitive configuration information, credentials, or other secrets. The REST API revision endpoints correctly restrict this lookup.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-81658 since 08/27/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. 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 08/27/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1548.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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