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Red HatCVE-2026-76235

Red Hat cockpit-ws: denial of service

High7.5CVE-2026-76235 · Published Aug 19, 2026 · updated Aug 25, 2026

A memory leak flaw was found in cockpit-ws. The login page handler leaks a heap allocation on every unauthenticated request that carries a CockpitLang cookie, allowing a remote unauthenticated attacker to exhaust memory on the host and cause a denial of service.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-401

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