CVE-2026-105217: Improper Certificate Validation in cockpit-hq cockpit
Description
Cockpit CMS 2.12.0 before 2.14.1 disables TLS certificate verification in the cron.php web worker restart request, allowing network attackers to capture the worker token. Man-in-the-middle attackers on the outbound path to site_url can present any certificate to steal the worker/web/token value and start the web worker.
CVSS v4.0
Score 2.3low
Affected software
cockpit-hq
cockpit
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- VulnCheck
- Date Reserved
- 2026-10-04T13:04:00.478Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ac28a8bc8a8bb8b79a5ca8e
Added to database: 10/04/2026, 17:19:07 UTC
Last updated: 10/04/2026, 17:19:07 UTC
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