What is CVE-2016-4995?

CVE-2016-4995 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Theforeman Foreman, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-08-19.

How severe is CVE-2016-4995?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Theforeman Foreman

CVE-2016-4995

Foreman before 1.11.4 and 1.12.x before 1.12.1 does not properly restrict access to preview provisioning templates, which allows remote authenticated users with permission to view some hosts to obtain sensitive host configuration information via a URL with a hostname.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-08-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Theforeman Foreman

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

theforeman.org/security.html (Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
projects.theforeman.org/issues/15490 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/repository/revisions/c3c186de12be15e55… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4995?: CVE-2016-4995 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Theforeman Foreman, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-08-19.
How severe is CVE-2016-4995?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.