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CVE-2026-2950VulnerabilityPublished

Red Hat Security Advisory: cockpit-machines security update

Affects Red Hat cockpit-machinesSource GCVE Database

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Mentioned vulnerabilities

Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 10 Nov 2026, 20:52 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 10 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released an updated package for cockpit-machines in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official update.

Description

Red Hat has issued a security update for the cockpit-machines component used to manage libvirt virtual machines. The update addresses two vulnerabilities in the lodash library: CVE-2026-4800, which allows arbitrary code execution via untrusted input in template imports, and CVE-2026-2950, which allows prototype pollution enabling deletion of built-in prototype properties via an array path bypass. These vulnerabilities have been rated as important by Red Hat Product Security. The update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 on multiple architectures.

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