CVE-2016-4443

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-09-02
CWE:
CWE-532
Bugzilla:
1335106: CVE-2016-4443 org.ovirt.engine-root: engine-setup logs contained information for extracting admin password
A flaw was found in RHEV Manager, where it wrote sensitive data to the engine-setup log file. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to view sensitive information such as encryption keys and certificates (which could then be used to steal other sensitive information such as passwords).

Find out more about CVE-2016-4443 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
RHEV Manager 3 (org.ovirt.engine-root) RHSA-2016:1929 2016-09-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 org.ovirt.engine-root Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3 ovirt-engine Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Simone Tiraboschi (Red Hat).

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