What is CVE-2018-1072?

CVE-2018-1072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ovirt, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2018-06-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-1072?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Ovirt

CVE-2018-1072

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.

Published 2018-06-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (61.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 61.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ovirt
[Unknown] Ovirt-Engine-Setup — versions oVirt 4.2.2
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager — versions 4.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2071 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1072?: CVE-2018-1072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ovirt, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2018-06-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-1072?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.