A vulnerability was discovered in oVirt 4.1.x before 4.1.9, where the combination of Enable Discard and Wipe After Delete flags for VM disks
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 71.1% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: ovirt-engine (Red Hat:rhev_manager:4) 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7; ovirt-engine-backend (Red Hat:rhev_manager:4) 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7; ovirt-engine-dbscripts (Red Hat:rhev_manager:4) 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to ovirt-engine (Red Hat:rhev_manager:4) 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7; ovirt-engine-backend (Red Hat:rhev_manager:4) 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7; ovirt-engine-dbscripts (Red Hat:rhev_manager:4) 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
A vulnerability was discovered in oVirt 4.1.x before 4.1.9, where the combination of Enable Discard and Wipe After Delete flags for VM disks managed by oVirt, could cause a disk to be incompletely zeroed when removed from a VM. If the same storage blocks happen to be later allocated to a new disk attached to another VM, potentially sensitive data could be revealed to privileged users of that VM.
- Published
- Mar 6, 2018
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.3% · 71th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-212
Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 1.3%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| redhat | ovirt-engine | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ovirt-engine |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- redhat ovirt-engine4.1.0 and later · before 4.1.9
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
oVirt oVirt
- 4.1.x before 4.1.9affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-backend | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-dbscripts | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-extensions-api-impl | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-extensions-api-impl-javadoc | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-lib | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-restapi | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-setup | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-setup-base | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-common | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-websocket-proxy | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-tools | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-tools-backup | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-userportal | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | ovirt-engine-websocket-proxy | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
| Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | rhevm | before 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 |
Same product
redhat: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2017-7510In ovirt-engine 4.1, if a host was provisioned with cloud-init, the root password could be revealed through the REST interface.35Monitor
- CVE-2014-0151Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in oVirt Engine before 3.5.0 beta2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of u27Monitor
- CVE-2015-1780oVirt users with MANIPULATE_STORAGE_DOMAIN permissions can attach a storage domain to any data-center26Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2016-3077Jun 6, 2017 · The VersionMapper.fromKernelVersionString method in oVirt Engine allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (process cra26Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2016-3113Aug 7, 2017 · Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ovirt-engine allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.25Monitor
- Later →CVE-2018-1000095Mar 12, 2018 · oVirt version 4.2.0 to 4.2.2 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the name/description of VMs portion of the web admin app19Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| red hat:ovirt-engine | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-backend | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-dbscripts | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-extensions-api-impl | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-extensions-api-impl-javadoc | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-lib | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-restapi | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-setup | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-setup-base | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-common | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper | 0:4.1.9.1-0.1.el7 · Red Hat:rhev_manager:4 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-212 · Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or TransferCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.