CVE-2024-7259 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-7259: Ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext provider passwords via web ui

Vendor Red Hat

Product Red Hat Virtualization 4

Weakness CWE-312 · Cleartext storage

Published September 26, 2024

Last update January 8, 2026

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CVSS base score

4.9/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required High

User interaction None

Confidentiality High

Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in oVirt. A user with administrator privileges, including users with the ReadOnlyAdmin permission, may be able to use browser developer tools to view Provider passwords in cleartext.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 26, 2024 CVE published

January 8, 2026 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7259 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/312.html

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CVE-2024-7259: Ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext provider passwords via web ui

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