Vulnerability CVE-2019-3804
Published: 2019-03-26

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Cockpit-project -> Cockpit 

 References:
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
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