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TI-2019-07462 Aliases CVE-2019-10139GHSA-35c5-8h9g-6345

Insufficiently protected credentials in oVirt cockpit-ovirt

Priority LOW 34CWE-522Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-522.

Summary

During HE deployment via cockpit-ovirt, cockpit-ovirt generates an ansible variable file `/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/cockpit/ansibleVarFileXXXXXX.var` which contains the admin and the appliance passwords as plain-text. At the of the deployment procedure, these files are deleted.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00245 15th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 2 advisories

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
oVirtcockpit-ovirtall versions—No fix listedCNA
  • cockpit-ovirt VendoroVirt Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:cockpit-ovirt:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDVulnerableoVirt
  • cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:cockpit-ovirt:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·oVirt

Remediation

Red Hat 2 advisories

  • RHSA-2019:2437 Released 2019-08-12 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Virtualization security update
    • RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) imgbased-1.1.9-0.1.el7ev, ovirt-node-ng-4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev, ovirt-node-ng-nodectl-4.3.5-0.20190717.0.el7ev +4
    • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 redhat-virtualization-host-4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7, redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.3.5-20190722.0.el7_7
  • RHSA-2019:2433 Released 2019-08-12 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    cockpit-ovirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update
    • RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) cockpit-ovirt-0.13.5-1.el7ev, cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.13.5-1.el7ev
    • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts cockpit-ovirt-0.13.5-1.el7ev, cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.13.5-1.el7ev

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements)Fixed RHSA-2019:2433, RHSA-2019:2437
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7Fixed RHSA-2019:2437
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 HostsFixed RHSA-2019:2433

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-10139
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-35c5-8h9g-6345

References

Advisory 3

Sources

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