cve-2024-6126
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-03 14:51
Modified
2024-11-24 15:05
Severity ?
3.2 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
A flaw was found in the cockpit package. This flaw allows an authenticated user to kill any process when enabling the pam_env's user_readenv option, which leads to a denial of service (DoS) attack.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9325
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6126
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292897
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6126
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292897
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:323.1-1.el9_5   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:323.1-1.el9_5   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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