RHEL 9 : cockpit (RHSA-2026:94533)

high Nessus Plugin ID 375678

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for cockpit.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:94533 advisory.

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL cockpit package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:94533.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 375678

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-94533.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/3/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.03

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-91149

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-bridge, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-packagekit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-storaged, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-system, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-ws-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-ws, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-76235, CVE-2026-91147, CVE-2026-91149

CWE: 401, 617, 770

RHSA: 2026:94533

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