Skip to content
Fencer Intel
low 2.1

CVE-2015-0257 json

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager before 3.5.1 uses weak permissions on the directories shared by the ovirt-engine-dwhd serv…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-0277

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 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager before 3.5.1 uses weak permissions on the directories shared by the ovirt-engine-dwhd service and a plugin during service startup, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directory.

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

Is CVE-2015-0257 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

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-2015-0257 updated cvss 3.5

ovirt-engine-dwh: incorrect permissions on plugin file containing passwords

  • 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

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

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% 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-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.