Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3.6 and earlier gives valid SLAAC IPv6 addresses to interfaces when "boot protocol" is set to None, which might allow remote attackers to communicate with a system designated to be unreachable.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2015-5293 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the versions of vdsm as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| RHEV Manager 3.6 | vdsm | Will not fix |
| RHEV Manager 3.5.z | vdsm | Will not fix |
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