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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2016-4443 json

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager 3.6 allows local users to obtain encryption keys, certificates, and other sensitive inform…

published 2016-12-14 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5432

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager 3.6 allows local users to obtain encryption keys, certificates, and other sensitive information by reading the engine-setup log file.

Patch / fix

  • rhevm rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-lib rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-setup rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-tools rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-backend rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-restapi rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-dbscripts rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6
  • rhevm-setup-base rhev manager 3 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1929

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-2016-4443 updated cvss 4.9

org.ovirt.engine-root: engine-setup logs contained information for extracting admin password

  • Red Hat Storage 3 org.ovirt.engine-root
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat RHEV-M 3.6 rhevm 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6, rhevm-lib 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6, rhevm-setup 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6, rhevm-tools 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6, rhevm-backend 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6, rhevm-restapi 3.6.9.2-0.1.el6, +13 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1929

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Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

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.