RHSA-2026:94533 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for cockpit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Cockpit enables users to administer GNU/Linux servers using a web browser. It offers network configuration, log inspection, diagnostic reports, SELinux troubleshooting, interactive command-line sessions, and more.

Security Fix(es):

• cockpit: Cockpit: Denial of Service in `cockpit-ws` due to URL-root handling without a trailing slash (CVE-2026-91147)
• cockpit: Cockpit: Denial of Service via unbounded connection thread spawning (CVE-2026-91149)
• cockpit-ws: cockpit: cockpit-ws: unauthenticated remote memory leak via CockpitLang cookie in send_login_html (CVE-2026-76235)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2479230 - CVE-2026-91147 cockpit: Cockpit: Denial of Service in `cockpit-ws` due to URL-root handling without a trailing slash
• BZ - 2479422 - CVE-2026-91149 cockpit: Cockpit: Denial of Service via unbounded connection thread spawning
• BZ - 2519497 - CVE-2026-76235 cockpit-ws: cockpit: cockpit-ws: unauthenticated remote memory leak via CockpitLang cookie in send_login_html

CVEs

• CVE-2026-76235
• CVE-2026-91147
• CVE-2026-91149

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important