CVE-2019-10183

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.0)
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: 2019-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Virt-install(1) utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments, thus leaking them to others users on the system via process listing. It was introduced recently in the virt-manager v2.2.0 release.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
RedHat Virt-Manager: 2.2.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109027
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10183
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109027
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10183

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