CVE-2026-38993

Cockpit's remote login feature passes user-supplied hostnames and usernames from the web interface to the SSH client without validation. An attacker with network access to the Cockpit web service can craft a single HTTP request to the login endpoint that injects malicious SSH options or shell commands, achieving code execution on the Cockpit host without valid credentials.

A vulnerability in Cockpit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to initiate and sustain numerous simultaneous connections to the cockpit-tls service, forcing it to create an unbounded number of threads and consume system resources such as memory and file descriptors. The result is a denial of service (DoS).

A flaw was found in Cockpit. An authenticated local user with a large user identifier (UID) can cause unauthorized modification and disclosure of login records. On 32-bit systems, an integer overflow during session accounting allows the user's login process to read or overwrite the legacy log entries of other accounts.

A flaw was found in Cockpit that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the host by exploiting unsanitized user-controlled parameters in the system logs UI. An attacker can inject shell metacharacters and command substitutions, leading to arbitrary shell command execution on the affected system.

A vulnerability was detected in Cockpit-HQ Cockpit up to 2.13.5 affecting some unknown functionality of the Asset Handler/Aggregate Handler component. The manipulation results in improper neutralization of special elements in data query logic. The attack can be launched remotely, and the exploit is now public.