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Medium · 5.0 CVE-2026-113496 EUVD-2026-104960GHSA-vxhg-j5jv-qgqm

Cockpit-machines: cockpit-appstream: vnc console password disclosure through virt-xml command-line arguments

Published Oct 20, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 cockpit-machines 360-1 —
Debian 13 cockpit-machines No fix yet —
Debian 12 cockpit-machines No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 cockpit-machines No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cockpit-machines No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cockpit-machines No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cockpit-machines No fix yet —

References