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CVE-2016-6341 json

oVirt Engine before 4.0.3 does not include DWH_DB_PASSWORD in the list of keys to hide in log files, which allows local users to obtain sen…

published 2017-04-20 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7268

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

oVirt Engine before 4.0.3 does not include DWH_DB_PASSWORD in the list of keys to hide in log files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive password information by reading engine log files.

Patch / fix

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-2016-6341 updated cvss 5.9

ovirt-engine: DWH_DB_PASSWORD is in cleartext in the log files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 ovirt-engine Red Hat Virtualization 4 rhvm, ovirt-engine, ovirt-engine-setup, ovirt-engine-tools, ovirt-engine-backend, ovirt-engine-restapi, +14 more
    affected: no fix available

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 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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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