CVE-2026-96659
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:LCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2026-96659 is a critical-severity Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions (CWE-267) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Valid Accounts (T1078); ranked at the 24th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-5 (Separation of Duties) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-90920
Vulnerability Data
A flaw was found in Foreman. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user with low-level Viewer permissions to cause unauthorized information disclosure by submitting requests to template preview endpoints. By exploiting this issue, the user can access sensitive data, such as…
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host root passwords. Furthermore, under insecure system configurations where Safemode protections are disabled, the flaw may allow the user to execute arbitrary commands as the Foreman system account.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 10 hardening rules · 4 OS baselines
V13.2.2V3.7.3V9.2.2V9.2.3
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Separation of duties splits high-risk actions across multiple privileges so that no single privilege can perform the full unsafe sequence.
Least privilege directly requires that privileges grant only the minimal actions needed, preventing definition of overly broad privileges that include unintended unsafe operations.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Defining and enforcing least-privilege permissions directly reduces the chance that a privilege permits unintended unsafe actions.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Access control policy can limit unsafe privilege use but does not define safe actions for each privilege.
Access rights assignment can restrict privileges to intended actions, yet does not guarantee the privilege itself is safe.
Privileged access rights control can restrict unsafe privileges, yet does not ensure the privilege definition itself is safe.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles including least privilege, default deny, fail securely, assume breach, distrust external input, and security-oriented design reviews that explicitly analyse required controls and attack patterns; this directly stops unsafe actions from being attached to privileges/roles in the large majority of cases, with a bounded remainder (e.g. unsafe actions arising from flawed business-logic requirements or post-design implementation drift).