CVE-2024-2947: Red Hat Cockpit: command injection when deleting a sosreport with a crafted name
This Red Hat advisory covers CVE-2024-2947 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and Red Hat package: cockpit.
- CVE-2024-2947
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- High, CVSS 7.3
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Fixed in
- cockpit-0:310.4-1.el8_10, cockpit-0:311.2-1.el9_4, RHSA-2024:3667 and 1 more below
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
A flaw was found in Cockpit. Deleting a sosreport with a crafted name via the Cockpit web interface can lead to a command injection vulnerability, resulting in privilege escalation.
This issue affects Cockpit versions 270 and newer. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 7.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-77. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2024:3667, RHSA-2024:3843.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: cockpit.
Text from the source record.
How to fix CVE-2024-2947
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:
- cockpit-0:310.4-1.el8_10
- cockpit-0:311.2-1.el9_4
- RHSA-2024:3667
- RHSA-2024:3843
Vendor guidance
- Do not remove SOS reports with strange names from the Cockpit web interface.
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