CVE-2026-12542
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs
Summary
A flaw was found in Foreman. The foreman-tail utility is vulnerable to OS command injection due to the unsafe use of the eval command. The script takes user-supplied arguments and incorporates them directly into a string that is then executed by eval to expand file paths. Because the input is not sanitized or quoted, a local attacker can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, &, |) to execute arbitrary system commands.
Risk Assessment
A local attacker can execute arbitrary system commands, potentially leading to privilege escalation, data breach, or system takeover.
Recommendation
Update Foreman to a version that includes a fix replacing eval with safe argument handling, e.g., using File.expand_path with proper quoting or input validation.
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- CVE-2026-96658Critical
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Original NVD description (English source)
A flaw was found in Foreman. The foreman-tail utility is vulnerable to OS command injection due to the unsafe use of the eval command. The script takes user-supplied arguments and incorporates them directly into a string that is then executed by eval to expand file paths. Because the input is not sanitized or quoted, a local attacker can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, &, |) to execute arbitrary system commands.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS