Medium severity · published Oct 1, 2026
CVE-2026-12545
Rubygem-hammer_cli: command injection via insecure editor invocation
6.7
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in rubygem-hammer_cli. A command injection vulnerability exists in Hammer CLI and the Railties (Ruby on Rails) component distributed with Satellite due to the insecure interpolation of the $EDITOR environment variable into the Ruby system() method. By passing a single interpolated string to system(), the application invokes a system shell (/bin/sh) that interprets shell metacharacters (e.g., ;, |, &).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Satellite 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12545
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12545
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74503
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74504
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74505
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74506
vdb-entry
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12545
issue-tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489993
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