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.

EPSS: 0.010 (59.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Ovirt
[Unknown] Ovirt-engine-setup — versions oVirt 4.2.2
Redhat Enterprise_virtualization_manager — versions 4.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.