Medium severity5.0NVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2026· Updated Sep 18, 2026
CVE-2026-92747
CVE-2026-92747
Description
A flaw was found in cockpit-machines. This vulnerability allows a local attacker with the ability to inspect running processes to expose sensitive guest virtual machine (VM) credentials, such as rootPassword and userPassword. This occurs when the install_machine.py script passes these credentials as a JSON command-line argument during VM creation or installation. The exposure is limited to the period when the installation workflow is active and depends on host process-visibility policies.
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