CVE-2019-3804

moderate-risk
Published 2019-03-26

It was found that cockpit before version 184 used glib's base64 decode functionality incorrectly resulting in a denial of service attack. An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted request with an invalid base64-encoded cookie which could cause the web service to crash.

Do I need to act?

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4.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (3)

Cockpit

Affected Vendors

Redhat Fedoraproject Cockpit-Project

References (10)

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1569
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1571
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3804
Patch https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/c51f6177576d7e12
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/10819
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1569
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1571
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3804
Patch https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/c51f6177576d7e12
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/10819
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 8/34 · Low
Exposure 9/34 · Low