CVE-2024-6861Foreman: foreman: oauth secret exposure via unauthenticated access to the graphql api
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.67%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 48% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A disclosure of sensitive information flaw was found in foreman via the GraphQL API. If the introspection feature is enabled, it is possible for attackers to retrieve sensitive admin authentication keys which could result in a compromise of the entire product's API.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.67% · top 48% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
foreman
- affected < 3.3
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.12 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:3.3.0.17-1.el8sat – < *
All versions: unaffected
All versions: unaffected
All versions: unaffected
What to do
Workaround: To mitigate this issue the GraphQL introspection feature must be disabled or the GraphQL API be disabled entirely. Malicious requests can also be filtered using a reverse proxy or directly in the web server configuration.
References
References5
- RHSA-2022:8506 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6861 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2317450 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://docs.theforeman.org/3.3/Release_Notes/index-katello.html#_foreman_2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/34328 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-47859 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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