RLSA-2026:99603

Security

Mirrored from RHSA-2026:99603

Issued at: 2026-11-13

Updated at: 2026-11-14

Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:99603, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.

Synopsis

Important: cockpit security update

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: Local privilege escalation via insecure symlink handling in public key addition helper (CVE-2026-91151)

* cockpit: cockpit: Denial of Service via unbounded fragmented WebSocket messages (CVE-2026-91150)

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.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64

Fixes

2478404

2478436

CVEs

CVE-2026-91150

CVE-2026-91151

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - BaseOS

cockpit-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

cockpit-bridge-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

cockpit-debuginfo-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

cockpit-debugsource-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

cockpit-ws-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - BaseOS

cockpit-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.src.rpm

cockpit-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

cockpit-bridge-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

cockpit-debuginfo-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

cockpit-debugsource-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

cockpit-doc-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.noarch.rpm

cockpit-system-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.noarch.rpm

cockpit-ws-0:310.10.2-1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm