CVE-2024-7012Puppet-foreman: an authentication bypass vulnerability exists in foreman
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.77%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An authentication bypass vulnerability has been identified in Foreman when deployed with External Authentication, due to the puppet-foreman configuration. This issue arises from Apache's mod_proxy not properly unsetting headers because of restrictions on underscores in HTTP headers, allowing authentication through a malformed header. This flaw impacts all active Satellite deployments (6.13, 6.14 and 6.15) and could potentially enable unauthorized users to gain administrative access.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 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 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
puppet-foreman
- affected < 22.0
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.5.2.8-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.5.2.8-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.7.0.8-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.7.0.8-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.9.3.4-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.9.3.4-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.12.0.1-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:3.12.0.1-1.el8sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:3.12.0.1-1.el9sat – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:3.12.0.1-1.el9sat – < *
What to do
Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
References
References6
- RHSA-2024:6335 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:6336 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:6337 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:8906 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7012 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2299429 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
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-2024-48827 (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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