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RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.7 Async Update (Important) (RHSA-2026:5971)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 303903

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:5971 advisory.

 Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

 Bug Fix(es):

 * High memory usage of postgres processes on scaled Capsule (SAT-42870)

 * Lifecycle Environment shows 2 Library options (SAT-42880)

 * Executing foreman-rake command in the satellite, prints warning W, [2025-08-28T14:25:04.030121 #11656] WARN -- : Scoped order is ignored, it's forced to be batch order. (SAT-42883)

 * Add EUS information on EOL banner for Satellite 6.16 (SAT-43138)

 Security Fix(es):

 * python-django: Django: SQL Injection via crafted column aliases (CVE-2026-1287)

 * python-django: Django: SQL Injection via RasterField band index parameter (CVE-2026-1207)

 * python-django: Django: Denial of Service via crafted HTML inputs (CVE-2026-1285)

 * python-django: Django: SQL injection via crafted column aliases in QuerySet.order_by() (CVE-2026-1312)

 * python-django: Django: Denial of Service via crafted request with duplicate headers (CVE-2025-14550)

 * python-brotli: Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy (CVE-2025-6176)

 * rubygem-foreman_kubevirt: foreman_kubevirt: Man-in-the-Middle due to insecure default SSL verification (CVE-2026-1531)

 * rubygem-fog-kubevirt: fog-kubevirt: Man-in-the-Middle vulnerability due to disabled certificate validation (CVE-2026-1530)

 * rubygem-rubyipmi: Red Hat Satellite: Remote Code Execution in rubyipmi via malicious BMC username (CVE-2026-0980)

 * yggdrasil-worker-forwarder: Unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121)

 * foreman: Remote Code Execution via command injection in WebSocket proxy (CVE-2026-1961)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2408762

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429874

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433784

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433786

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436338

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436339

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436340

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436341

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436342

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437036

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437111

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-42870

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-42880

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-42883

http://www.nessus.org/u?64bae632

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5971

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 303903

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-5971.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2026

Updated: 3/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68121

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1287

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:yggdrasil-worker-forwarder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-service, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-vmware, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-telemetry, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-fog-kubevirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-dynflow-sidekiq, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-brotli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-pcp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-foreman_kubevirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-ec2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-openstack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-brotli, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-journald, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-redis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-ovirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rubyipmi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:foreman-debug

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14550, CVE-2025-6176, CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2026-0980, CVE-2026-1207, CVE-2026-1285, CVE-2026-1287, CVE-2026-1312, CVE-2026-1530, CVE-2026-1531, CVE-2026-1961

CWE: 167, 295, 400, 770, 78, 89

RHSA: 2026:5971