vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-10183: ELSA-2019-3464: virt-manager security, bug fix, and enhancement update (LOW)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 2, 2019
Added
Nov 22, 2019
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

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.
The virt-install utility used to provision new virtual machines, in virt-manager v2.2.0, has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments. An attacker could obtain these passwords though process listings on the system.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-virt-installoracle-linux-upgrade-virt-manageroracle-linux-upgrade-virt-manager-common
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