Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2018-12-13 CWE: CWE-119 Bugzilla: 1663567: CVE-2019-3804 cockpit: Crash when parsing invalid base64 headers It was found that cockpit 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.
Find out more about CVE-2019-3804 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | rhvm-appliance | Affected |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | redhat-virtualization-host | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 | cockpit | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | cockpit | Affected |
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