Resource Exhaustion Affecting cockpit-packagekit package, versions <0:323.1-1.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-COCKPITPACKAGEKIT-10509272
  • published26 Jun 2025
  • disclosed3 Jul 2024

Introduced: 3 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-6126  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 cockpit-packagekit to version 0:323.1-1.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9325.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cockpit-packagekit package and not the cockpit-packagekit package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1