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

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-312 and its CVEs

Affected products

• ovirt-engine

  • affected < 4.5.7

• Red Hat · Red Hat Virtualization 4

  All versions: affected

What to do

Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

References (5)

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7259 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
• RHBZ#2314229 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
• https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/commit/4ad930699509a060490e07ed8620cccbb3a24897 (opens in a new tab)
• https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/969 (opens in a new tab)
• https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/970 (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-7259](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-7259.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-7259)

Record last updated 6 Nov 2026, 07:07 UTC.