Vulnerability in katello (CVE-2026-12515)
Summary
Vulnerability in katello (CVE-2026-12515). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.21.0.rc1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-12515 has been found in katello.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10.
What to do: upgrade katello to 4.21.0.rc1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "katello CVE-2026-12515" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-12515 (katello) — CWE-862 / CVSS v3 4.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 4.21.0.rc1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-862) exists in katello.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of katello.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 4.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 4.21.0.rc1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'katello' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'katello' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
katelloを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade katello to 4.21.0.rc1ステージング環境で 4.21.0.rc1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
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- web access.redhat.com
- web bugzilla.redhat.com
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