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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-7510 json

In ovirt-engine 4.1, if a host was provisioned with cloud-init, the root password could be revealed through the REST interface.

published 2019-03-25 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16527

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In ovirt-engine 4.1, if a host was provisioned with cloud-init, the root password could be revealed through the REST interface.

Patch / fix

  • rhevm rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine-lib rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine-setup rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine-tools rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine-backend rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine-restapi rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7
  • ovirt-engine-dbscripts rhev manager 4 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7

red hat advisories RHEA-2017:1814

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7510 updated cvss 6.5

4: ovirt-engine exposes cloud-init root password via REST API

  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.1 rhevm 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7, ovirt-engine 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7, ovirt-engine-lib 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7, ovirt-engine-setup 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7, ovirt-engine-tools 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7, ovirt-engine-backend 4.1.4.2-0.1.el7, +14 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHEA-2017:1814

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] RHV

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.