CVE-2012-6115

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The domain management tool (rhevm-manage-domains) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) 3.1 and earlier, when the validate action is enabled, logs the administrative password to a world-readable log file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Manager: through 3.1; 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.3, 3.0

References

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e8c72daec4efa8be0fcd8ea55c41e855ddd8eedf
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0211.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57749
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028076
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893355
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81833
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-engine.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e8c72daec4efa8be0fcd8ea55c41e855ddd8eedf
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0211.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57749
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028076
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893355
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81833

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