FKIE_CVE-2024-6126

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-03 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:17
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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