An information disclosure in ovirt-hosted-engine-setup prior to 2.2.7 reveals the root user's password in the log file.

published 2018-01-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-1781

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

ovirt ovirt-hosted-engine-setup 2.2.7

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-2018-1000018 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 0.0

ovirt-hosted-engine-setup: root password exposed in log file

Red Hat Virtualization 4 ovirt-hosted-engine-setup
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536941 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1536941
exploit, issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
gerrit.ovirt.org /#/c/86635/
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-1000018
NVD CVE-2018-1000018

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Summary