CVE-2024-7259 Ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext provider passwords via web ui
Administrators can view cleartext provider passwords in the web UI using browser developer tools, exposing sensitive credentials.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-7259?
CVE-2024-7259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Virtualization 4, published on 26 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-312
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7259?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ovirt Ovirt-Engine.
How do I fix CVE-2024-7259?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7259 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-7259 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7259 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Virtualization 4
- CVE-2013-4367 Misconfiguration in ovirt-engine
- CVE-2024-0822 Ovirt: authentication bypass
- CVE-2020-35497 Information disclosure in ovirt-engine
- CVE-2020-14333 Cross-site scripting in ovirt-engine
- CVE-2022-3193 An HTML injection/reflected Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in the ovirt-engine.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9gxg-3rjh-xv63.