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CVE-2010-2223

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2223 describes a data remanence vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H) before version 5.5-2.2. The Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) fails to properly zero out disk blocks after a virtual machine's data is removed, potentially allowing guest OS users to access sensitive information from previously deleted VMs. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.4-2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_hypervisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for RHEL-5Fixed in: vdsm22-0:4.5-62.el5rhev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for RHEL-5Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor-0:5.5-2.2.4.2.el5rhev
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2223Moderate

vdsm: missing VM post-zeroing after removal

Oct 22, 2009

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
securitytracker.com / id
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0473.html
PatchVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0476.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/41044