Riskcovery

CVE-2024-6126

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

State
Published
Severity
3.2 Low
Published
Jul 3, 2024
Updated
Nov 21, 2025
Reserved
Jun 18, 2024

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.2 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Lredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
cockpit
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
    • 0:323.1-1.el9_5 and laterNot affected
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
    • 0:323.1-1.el9_5 and laterNot affected
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat

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