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CVE-2024-7259

Ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext provider passwords via web ui

Products / packages ovirt-engine · Red Hat Virtualization 4

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

KEV coverage does not rule out exploitation.

KEV checked 15/11/2026, 01:40:32 UTC
redhat · CVSS:3.1 · 4.9
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity

medium4.9

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Known exploitation

Not listed in the checked CISA KEV catalog

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Public exploit

Not established by this record

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Remediation

Source guidance available

Review the recorded instructions. Guidance may be a workaround rather than a fixed version.

What this means

A flaw in oVirt-engine, versions less than 4.5.7, may expose cleartext provider passwords via the web UI to users with administrator privileges. The weakness is cleartext storage of sensitive information. An attacker with administrator access may view passwords using browser developer tools.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Attack conditions

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Affected versions

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Vendor not supplied · redhat

ovirt-engine

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affected

0 → before 4.5.7

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unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Red Hat · redhat

Red Hat Virtualization 4

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affected

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unknown

Other versions: affected

Product identifiers (CPE)cpe:/a:redhat:rhev_manager:4
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What to do

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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A flaw was found in oVirt. A user with administrator privileges, including users with the ReadOnlyAdmin permission, may be able to use browser developer tools to view Provider passwords in cleartext.

References

5 sources
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7259
Security advisoryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
Source referenceredhat
oVirt/ovirt-engine · commit 4ad9306
Patchredhat
oVirt/ovirt-engine · pull request #969
Patchredhat
oVirt/ovirt-engine · pull request #970
Patchredhat

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Original records

CVE-2024-7259

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-312 ↗

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

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Contributing organizations · 2
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Assigning organization

2026-11-06
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2024-09-26

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What changed

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  1. CVE · CVE-2024-7259

    Observed 2026-11-06T07:54:34.289Z · upstream updated 2026-11-06T07:07:56.062Z

    References changed

    before

    [
  "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7259",
  "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314229"
]

    after

    [
  "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7259",
  "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314229",
  "https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/commit/4ad930699509a060490e07ed8620cccbb3a24897",
  "https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/969",
  "https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/970"
]

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