Foreman: read-only access to entire db from templates

Description

A vulnerability was found in Foreman's loader macros introduced with report templates. These macros may allow an authenticated user with permissions to view and create templates to read any field from Foreman's database. By using specific strings in the loader macros, users can bypass permissions and access sensitive information.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.

Affected products

• foreman

  All versions: affected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8

  • unaffected 0:3.5.1.25-1.el8sat – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8

  • unaffected 0:3.7.0.14-1.el8sat – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8

  • unaffected 0:3.9.1.11-1.el8sat – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8

  • unaffected 0:3.12.0.1-1.el8sat – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9

  • unaffected 0:3.12.0.1-1.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.

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-2024-49631 (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-8553](https://cveledger.app/badge/CVE-2024-8553.svg)](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-8553)

Record last updated 11 Nov 2025, 16:10 UTC.