CVE-2018-1075

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-532

Description

ovirt-engine up to version 4.2.3 is vulnerable to an unfiltered password when choosing manual db provisioning. When engine-setup was run and one chooses to provision the database manually or connect to a remote database, the password input was logged in cleartext during the verification step. Sharing the provisioning log might inadvertently leak database passwords.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] ovirt-engine: before 4.2.3 — fixed in 4.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: [UNKNOWN] ovirt-engine 4.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2071
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1075
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/91653/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2071
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1075
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/91653/

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