It was found that the libvirt daemon, when using RBD (RADOS Block Device), leaked private credentials to the process list. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform certain privileged operations within the cluster.
Find out more about CVE-2015-5160 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security
impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future
updates of Enterprise Linux 6. For additional information, refer to
the Issue Severity Classification:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
| Base Score | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (libvirt) | RHSA-2016:2577 | 2016-11-03 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 | libvirt | Not affected |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 2.1 | libvirt | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libvirt | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libvirt | Will not fix |
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