CVE-2026-12405: Foreman Remote Execution: command injection via effective

CVE-2026-12405: Foreman Remote Execution: command injection via effective_user (fixed in 16.6.6, 17.2.2, 18.0.1)

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Oct 2026, 06:49 CET

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Posted by Ondrej Gajdusek on Oct 06 Hi, A security fix has been released in Foreman Remote Execution, an open-source plugin for Foreman, an open-source lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. CVE-2026-12405: Foreman Remote Execution: command injection via effective_user An authenticated user with permission to execute job templates can inject commands through the overridable `effective_user` parameter during job invocation.

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