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🛡️ CVE-2026-0980 — rubyipmi

🟠 CVSS 8.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
8.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

rubyipmi is vulnerable to OS Command Injection through malicious usernames

A flaw was found in rubyipmi, a gem used in the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) component of Red Hat Satellite. An authenticated attacker with host creation or update permissions could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious username for the BMC interface. This could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the system.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-0980 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2026-0980 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • rubyipmi (fixed in 0.13.0)
  • satellite

Timeline and source

Published on 27 February 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-78: OS Command Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
rubyipmi — 0.13.0
satellite — —

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