Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-113495 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-113495 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-113495?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5, published 20 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Red Hat cockpit-machines.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-113495?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-113495 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-113495?
- Check whether you run Red Hat Cockpit Machines. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A local unprivileged attacker with cross-user process inspection capabilities can read RHSM authentication tokens passed as command-line arguments to background helper processes during image retrieval operations. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of sensitive credentials in process invocation (CWE-214). An attacker gains unauthorized access to RHSM services within the compromised token's validity window.
Affected products
- Red Hat cockpit-machines
Timeline
- 2026-10-20: disclosed