CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-113496

MediumCVSS 5.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in cockpit-machines where the VNC console password is passed directly as a command-line argument to a system utility. A local unprivileged attacker on a host allowing cross-user process inspection could read the exposed password from the process list.

Risk Assessment

Credential disclosure can allow unauthorized access to the guest virtual machine's graphical console.

Recommendation

Restrict cross-user process inspection and update cockpit-machines to a version containing the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS