Medium
Security advisory
The web console login form in ovirt-engine before version 4.2.3 returned different errors for non-existent users and invalid passwords, allowing an attacker to discover the names of valid user accounts.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1073
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The web console login form in ovirt-engine before version 4.2.3 returned different errors for non-existent users and invalid passwords, allowing an attacker to discover the names of valid user accounts.
osv:CVE-2018-1073
Complete source record
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"references": [
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