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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-03 14:51 – Updated: 2025-11-21 07:06
VLAI
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
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
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
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
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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
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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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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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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