FKIE_CVE-2016-6338

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-20 17:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:50
Severity
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
ovirt-engine-webadmin, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (aka RHEV-M) for Servers and RHEV-M 4.0, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass a webadmin session timeout restriction via vectors related to UI selections, which trigger repeating queries.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92666Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3427
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369285Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92666Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3427
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369285Exploit, Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat enterprise_virtualization 4.0
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