# CVE-2024-7259: Ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext provider passwords via web ui

Status: published. Published: 2024-09-26. Updated: 2026-11-05.

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.

## Remediation

- 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. (source: CNA: redhat)

## Affected products and versions

-  /  (ovirt-engine): ≥ 0; < 4.5.7 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Virtualization 4 (ovirt-engine): Version range not reported. Source: CNA: redhat

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 4.9 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N; source: CNA: redhat

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: 0.26% as of 2026-11-05; percentile 18.02%

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact partial; source ADP: CISA-ADP

- Weaknesses: CWE-312

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7259 (CNA: redhat; vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314229 (CNA: redhat; issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT)

## Provenance

- CNA: redhat: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7259; retrieved 2026-11-05; source updated 2026-11-05

- FIRST EPSS: https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-7259; retrieved 2026-11-05; source updated Not reported

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