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CVE-2018-1072 json

ovirt-engine before version ovirt 4.2.2 is vulnerable to an information exposure through log files.

published 2018-06-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-11724

cvss
5.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ovirt-engine before version ovirt 4.2.2 is vulnerable to an information exposure through log files. When engine-backup was run with one of the options "--provision*db", the database username and password were logged in cleartext. Sharing the provisioning log might inadvertently leak database passwords.

Patch / fix

  • ovirt ovirt 4.2.2
  • rhvm rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine-lib rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine-setup rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine-tools rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine-backend rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine-restapi rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3
  • ovirt-engine-dbscripts rhev manager 4.2 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2071

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-2018-1072 updated cvss 5.0

ovirt-engine-setup: unfiltered db password in engine-backup log

  • Red Hat RHV-M 4.2 rhvm 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3, ovirt-engine 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3, ovirt-engine-lib 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3, ovirt-engine-setup 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3, ovirt-engine-tools 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3, ovirt-engine-backend 4.2.4.5-0.1.el7_3, +14 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2071

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

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] ovirt-engine-setup

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

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.