What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-13314

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

virt-bootstrap 1.1.0 allows local users to discover a root password by listing a process, because this password may be present in the --root-password option to virt_bootstrap.py.

Affected products

• RedHat Virt-Bootstrap: 1.1.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00080.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00026.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/08/3
• https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-bootstrap/releases
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2PQSLGSTPVQ5WQ4DDKFV4I262JIFXY6/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YKMQLYAHCDIE5TBXWDNBG7554KWI5QT3/
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-July/msg00043.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00080.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00026.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/08/3
• https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-bootstrap/releases
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2PQSLGSTPVQ5WQ4DDKFV4I262JIFXY6/

Get alerted when CVE-2019-13314 or the next vulnerability affects your stack