High
Security advisory
In ovirt-engine 4.1, if a host was provisioned with cloud-init, the root password could be revealed through the REST interface.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7510
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In ovirt-engine 4.1, if a host was provisioned with cloud-init, the root password could be revealed through the REST interface.
osv:CVE-2017-7510
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.079431380Z",
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