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CVE-2015-0237 json

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager before 3.5.1 ignores the permission to deny snapshot creation during live storage migratio…

published 2015-05-01 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-0259

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager before 3.5.1 ignores the permission to deny snapshot creation during live storage migration between domains, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (prevent host start) by creating a long snapshot chain.

Patch / fix

  • rhevm rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-lib rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-setup rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-tools rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-backend rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-restapi rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-dbscripts rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev
  • rhevm-setup-base rhev manager 3 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0888

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-2015-0237 updated cvss 4.3

vdsm: Users attempting a live storage migration create snapshot without snapshot creation permissions

  • Red Hat RHEV-M 3.5 rhevm 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev, rhevm-lib 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev, rhevm-setup 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev, rhevm-tools 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev, rhevm-backend 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev, rhevm-restapi 3.5.1-0.4.el6ev, +11 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0888

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Exploit prediction

1.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.