CVE-2024-7259 (GCVE-0-2024-7259)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-26 15:15 – Updated: 2025-11-20 20:56
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
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Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , < 4.5.7 (semver)
    Red Hat Red Hat Virtualization 4     cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4
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