Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Oct 1, 2026 17:14:49 UTC

CVE-2026-12545

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., ;, |, &).

Base score6.7/ 10

SeverityMediumCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes

Base severityMedium

Attack vectorLocalAV

Attack complexityHighAC

Privileges requiredLowPR

User interactionRequiredUI

ScopeUnchangedS

Confidentiality impactHighC

Integrity impactHighI

Availability impactHighA

CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Record context

CVE Numbering Authorityredhat

Last updatedNov 2, 2026 18:49:01 UTC

PublishedOct 1, 2026 17:14:49 UTC

ReservedJun 17, 2026 17:42:24 UTC

Credits

This issue was discovered by Laura Pardo (Red Hat) and Toni Gornals (Red Hat).