Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for cockpit-machines.

CVE-2026-113496[0]:
| A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. When saving Virtual Network
| Computing (VNC) console settings, the configured password is passed
| directly as a command-line argument to an underlying system utility.
| A local unprivileged attacker on a host that allows cross-user
| process inspection could read the exposed password from the process
| list while another user modifies settings. This credential
| disclosure can allow unauthorized access to the guest virtual
| machine's graphical console.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-113496
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-113496
[1] https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxhg-j5jv-qgqm
[2] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/commit/e0d400eb32ef806bfcdda701608f8dc222cec2ab

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore