| Name | CVE-2026-113496 |
| Description | A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. When saving Virtual Network Computing (VNC) console settings, the configured password is passed directly as a command-line argument to an underlying system utility. A local unprivileged attacker on a host that allows cross-user process inspection could read the exposed password from the process list while another user modifies settings. This credential disclosure can allow unauthorized access to the guest virtual machine's graphical console. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1152783 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| cockpit-machines (PTS) | bookworm | 288-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 332-1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 360-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[trixie] - cockpit-machines <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - cockpit-machines <postponed> (Minor issue, can be mitigated and then fixed with next release)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2556058
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxhg-j5jv-qgqm
Fixed by: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/commit/e0d400eb32ef806bfcdda701608f8dc222cec2ab