CVE-2026-12542
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Description
A flaw was found in Foreman. The foreman-tail utility is vulnerable to OS command injection due to the unsafe use of the eval command. The script takes user-supplied arguments and incorporates them directly into a string that is then executed by eval to expand file paths. Because the input is not sanitized or quoted, a local attacker can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, &, |) to execute arbitrary system commands.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.8
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-01 18:17:15.033000
Last modified
2026-11-09 17:17:28.203000
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