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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
20 explicit affected versions
19 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5968
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5970
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5971
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0980
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2429874
- https://github.com/logicminds/rubyipmi
- https://github.com/logicminds/rubyipmi/commit/252503a7b4dca68388165883b0322024e344a215
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubyipmi/CVE-2026-0980.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0980
- https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/0xxx/CVE-2026-0980.json