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OESA-2024-1842 (CVE-2024-6126)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-07-12 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

cockpit security update

Details

Cockpit makes GNU/Linux discoverable. See Linux server in a web browser and perform system tasks with a mouse. It’s easy to start containers, administer storage, configure networks, and inspect logs with this package.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2024-6126)

Severity

3.2 (Low)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6126	ADVISORY

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CVE-2024-6126 (GCVE-0-2024-6126)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-03 14:51 – Updated: 2025-11-21 07:06

Title

Cockpit: authenticated user can kill any process when enabling pam_env's user_readenv option

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.

Severity

3.2 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-07-08 14:14 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9325	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6126	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292897	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version

Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Unaffected: 0:323.1-1.el9_5 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Date Public

2024-07-03 00:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Paolo Perego (OpenSUSE) for reporting this issue.

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