CVE-2019-3804 Information

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

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1569 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1571 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3804 https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/c51f6177576d7e12 https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/10819

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5