Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-92747 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-92747 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-92747?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5, published 18 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Red Hat Cockpit Machines.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-92747?
- 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-2026-92747 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-92747?
- 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
The vulnerability exists in the install_machine.py script, which passes VM credentials as JSON command-line arguments during VM creation or installation. A local attacker with sufficient process-visibility permissions can read these credentials from the process list. This is a CWE-214 weakness (invocation of process using visible sensitive information). The exposure window is limited to the active installation workflow and depends on host-level process visibility policies.
Affected products
- Red Hat Cockpit Machines
Timeline
- 2026-09-18: disclosed