---
id: CVE-2024-7259
title: 'Ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext provider passwords via web ui'
summary: >-
  A flaw was found in oVirt. A user with administrator privileges, including
  users with the ReadOnlyAdmin permission, may be able to use browser developer
  tools to view Provider passwords in cleartext.
severity: medium
cvss: 4.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-312
vendor: Red Hat
product: ovirt-engine
affected:
  - ovirt-engine < 4.5.7
  - ovirt-engine (all versions)
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2024-09-26T15:45:53.572941Z'
published: '2024-09-26'
updated: '2026-11-06'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-06T07:07:56.062Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7259'
references:
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7259'
  - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314229'
    label: RHBZ#2314229
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/commit/4ad930699509a060490e07ed8620cccbb3a24897
  - url: 'https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/969'
  - url: 'https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/970'
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00306
epssPercentile: 0.2358
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T21:36:00.882Z'
---

## Overview

A flaw was found in oVirt. A user with administrator privileges, including users with the ReadOnlyAdmin permission, may be able to use browser developer tools to view Provider passwords in cleartext.

## Affected

- `ovirt-engine < 4.5.7`
- `ovirt-engine (all versions)`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

### Workarounds

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.