High severity · published Mar 26, 2019
CVE-2019-3804
It was found that cockpit before version 184 used glib's base64 decode functionality incorrectly resulting in a denial of service attack
7.5
CVSS
4.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.9% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Cockpit · Cockpit-project
before 184 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
VI
Virtualization · Redhat
4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3804
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3804
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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