CVE-2019-10183

Virt-install(1) utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments, thus leaking them to others users on the system via process listing. It was introduced recently in the virt-manager v2.2.0 release.

Score

CVSS 3.0 3.3 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-07-03

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Virt-install (Red Hat)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Virt-manager (Redhat)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109027
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10183