CVE-2016-5432
ovirt-engine: ovirt-engine-provisiondb logs contain DB username and password in plain text
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
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
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 · 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information