Katello: missing repository authorization in content_uploads exposes cross-product content existence (Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8)

CVE-2026-12515
MEDIUM 4.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 13 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A flaw was found in Katello's of Red Hat Satellite. A content upload functionality where insufficient authorization checks in the ContentUploadsController allowed users with the edit_products permission to query content information for repositories outside the products they were authorized to manage. An authenticated attacker could exploit this issue to determine whether specific content exists within repositories that should otherwise be inaccessible. This issue does not allow unauthorized modification, import, or publication of content.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8unaffected 0:4.14.0.21-1.el8sat < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9unaffected 0:4.14.0.21-1.el9sat < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9unaffected 0:4.16.0.18-1.el9sat < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9unaffected 0:4.18.0.15-1.el9sat < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9unaffected 0:4.20.0.7-1.el9sat < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened Images
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD