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CVE-2014-3559
- Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2014-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
The oVirt storage backend in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 does not wipe memory snapshots when deleting a VM, even when wipe-after-delete (WAD) is configured for the VM's disk, which allows remote authenticated users with certain credentials to read portions of the deleted VM's memory and obtain sensitive information via an uninitialized storage volume.
Affected products
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1002.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030664
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121925
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95098
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1002.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030664
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121925
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95098
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