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CVE-2016-5432

ovirt-engine: ovirt-engine-provisiondb logs contain DB username and password in plain text

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · August 30, 2016

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information