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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.6

CVE-2019-10139 json

During HE deployment via cockpit-ovirt, cockpit-ovirt generates an ansible variable file `/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/cockpit/ansibl…

published 2019-05-17 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-2178

cvss
5.6
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

During HE deployment via cockpit-ovirt, cockpit-ovirt generates an ansible variable file `/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/cockpit/ansibleVarFileXXXXXX.var` which contains the admin and the appliance passwords as plain-text. At the of the deployment procedure, these files are deleted.

Patch / fix

  • imgbased RHEL 7 1.1.9-0.1.el7ev
  • ovirt-node-ng RHEL 7 4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev
  • python-imgbased RHEL 7 1.1.9-0.1.el7ev
  • ovirt-node-ng-nodectl RHEL 7 4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev
  • redhat-virtualization-host RHEL 7 4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7
  • python2-ovirt-node-ng-nodectl RHEL 7 4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev
  • redhat-release-virtualization-host RHEL 7 4.3.5-2.el7ev
  • redhat-virtualization-host-image-update RHEL 7 4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2437RHSA-2019:2433

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-2019-10139 updated cvss 5.6

cockpit-ovirt: admin and appliance passwords saved in plain text variable file during HE deployment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 redhat-virtualization-host 4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7, redhat-virtualization-host-image-update 4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2437
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts cockpit-ovirt 0.13.5-1.el7ev, cockpit-ovirt-dashboard 0.13.5-1.el7ev Red Hat RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) imgbased 1.1.9-0.1.el7ev, cockpit-ovirt 0.13.5-1.el7ev, python-imgbased 1.1.9-0.1.el7ev, cockpit-ovirt-dashboard 0.13.5-1.el7ev, ovirt-node-ng 4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev, ovirt-node-ng-nodectl 4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev, +3 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2433

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Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/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

Affected products

  • ovirt cockpit-ovirt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

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.