CVE-2016-5432

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-08-30
CWE:
CWE-312
Bugzilla:
1371428: CVE-2016-5432 ovirt-engine: ovirt-engine-provisiondb logs contain DB username and password in plain text
It was found that the ovirt-engine-provisiondb utility did not correctly sanitize the authentication details used with the “—provision*db” options from the output before storing them in log files. This could allow an attacker with read access to these log files to obtain sensitive information such as passwords.

Find out more about CVE-2016-5432 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 5.9
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Virtualization 4 (org.ovirt.engine-root) RHSA-2016:1967 2016-09-28

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Virtualization 4 ovirt-engine Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3 ovirt-engine Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Yedidyah Bar David (Red Hat).

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