# CVE-2026-86323: Red Hat Satellite unauthorized access to mail-notification settings in API

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-124676, GHSA-88RX-HV2V-X9JW
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-13)
- Fix: none listed; see the vendor advisory
- Published: 2026-11-12 · Updated: 2026-11-13

CVE-2026-86323 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 4.3 (medium) and affects Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9, Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 and 1 more; no fixed version is listed; see the vendor advisory.

## Summary

Red Hat Satellite 6 (the foreman package) has an authorization flaw in its mail-notification endpoints. A remote attacker with a low-privileged login and no user interaction can view another user's mail-notification settings, including mail_query values, and, where write permissions apply, change or create those settings.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- foreman: version range not reported
- foreman: version range not reported
- foreman: version range not reported
- foreman: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Foreman’s Api::V2::MailNotificationsController, where authorization checks on user-specific mail-notification resources are insufficient. The GET /api/v2/users/:id/mail_notifications endpoint resolves the target account using User.find(params[:id]) without verifying that the authenticated user is authorized to access that user’s notification configuration. Additionally, the POST and PUT /api/v2/users/:user_id/mail_notifications paths call deny_access when the requester is unauthorized but fail to halt execution, allowing the request to continue and persist the unauthorized change despite a 403 response or subsequent DoubleRenderError. This can allow a user to disclose another user’s mail-notification configuration, including mail_query values, and, where write permissions apply, modify or create notification settings for another user.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on foreman, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Check your systems with an agent

```text
Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-86323 (Foreman: authorization flaw in the mail-notification endpoints implemented by api::v2::mailnotificationscontroller), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-86323 (entry last updated 2026-11-13):
Affected:
- Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8: version range not reported
- Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9: version range not reported
- Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9: version range not reported
- Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9: version range not reported
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-86323 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-86323 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99949
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99950
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99952
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529290
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86323
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-86323
For follow-up questions, use the cve.now MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp (no authentication), for example execute with name cve.get and arguments {"id": "CVE-2026-86323"}.
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## References

### CVE record

Establishes: The identifier and description.

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86323
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86323

### Write-ups

Establishes: Technical detail and context.

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529290

### Other links

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99949
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99950
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:99952
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86323

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