What is CVE-2022-3874?

CVE-2022-3874 is a high-severity vulnerability in Theforeman Foreman, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2023-09-22.

How severe is CVE-2022-3874?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-3874 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Theforeman Foreman

CVE-2022-3874

A command injection flaw was found in foreman. This flaw allows an authenticated user with admin privileges on the foreman instance to transpile commands through CoreOS and Fedora CoreOS configurations in templates, possibly resulting in arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating system.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2023-09-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (82.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3874 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-3874?: CVE-2022-3874 is a high-severity vulnerability in Theforeman Foreman, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2023-09-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-3874?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-3874 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.