Cockpit prior 184 glibc Request input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cockpit. It has been declared as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component glibc. Such manipulation as part of Request leads to input validation. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-3804. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Cockpit. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component glibc. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 02/05/2019. The weakness was released 03/26/2019 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-3804 since 01/03/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 49 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 157933 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for cockpit (ELSA-2019-0482)).

Upgrading to version 184 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Cockpit 184
Patch: github.com

Timelineinfo

01/03/2019 🔍
02/05/2019 +33 days 🔍
03/26/2019 +49 days 🔍
03/27/2019 +1 days 🔍
08/08/2023 +1595 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: RHSA-2019:1569
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2019-3804 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-3804
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-132446

Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2019 06:43
Updated: 08/08/2023 14:29
Changes: 03/27/2019 06:43 (59), 05/21/2020 16:53 (2), 08/08/2023 14:27 (5), 08/08/2023 14:29 (13)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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