ovirt-engine up to 4.2.3 engine-setup Password information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in ovirt-engine up to 4.2.3. This affects an unknown function of the component engine-setup. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure (Password). This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2018-1075. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in ovirt-engine up to 4.2.3 (Virtualization Software) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component engine-setup. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

ovirt-engine up to version 4.2.3 is vulnerable to an unfiltered password when choosing manual db provisioning. When engine-setup was run and one chooses to provision the database manually or connect to a remote database, the password input was logged in cleartext during the verification step. Sharing the provisioning log might inadvertently leak database passwords.

The bug was discovered 06/01/2018. The weakness was published 06/12/2018 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-1075 since 12/04/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 11 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 110796 (RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2018:2071)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (110796). Similar entry is available at VDB-119993. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Virtualization Software

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• ovirt-engine

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• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3

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