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CVE-2012-5516 json

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.1, when moving disks between storage domains, does not properly wipe-after-dele…

published 2013-01-04 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5408

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.1, when moving disks between storage domains, does not properly wipe-after-delete, which prevents disks from being securely deleted and might allow local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • rhevm rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-setup rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-config rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-backend rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-restapi rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-dbscripts rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-genericapi rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev
  • rhevm-userportal rhev manager 3 3.1.0-32.el6ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:1506

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-5516 updated cvss 2.1

rhev-m: MoveDisk ignores the disk's wipe-after-delete property

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2 ovirt-engine-backend
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat RHEV-M for Servers rhevm 3.1.0-32.el6ev, rhevm-setup 3.1.0-32.el6ev, rhevm-config 3.1.0-32.el6ev, rhevm-backend 3.1.0-32.el6ev, rhevm-restapi 3.1.0-32.el6ev, rhevm-dbscripts 3.1.0-32.el6ev, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1506

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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