CVE-2026-91142

NameCVE-2026-91142
DescriptionA flaw was found in Cockpit. An authenticated local user with a large user identifier (UID) can cause unauthorized modification and disclosure of login records. On 32-bit systems, an integer overflow during session accounting allows the user's login process to read or overwrite the legacy log entries of other accounts.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cockpit (PTS)bookworm287.1-0+deb12u3vulnerable
bookworm (security)287.1-0+deb12u2vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie337-1+deb13u2vulnerable
forky, sid370-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cockpitsource(unstable)368-1

Notes

[trixie] - cockpit <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479459
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/5efa4af065321873f6eb8988f3b0b50e981689ba (368)
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/6e76c96272a4ebcb085c948e5cc9189eeee561af (368)

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