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CVE-2014-0189

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0189 describes a vulnerability in virt-who, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux and virt-who projects, where the /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file has world-readable permissions. This misconfiguration allows local users to access hypervisor passwords stored within the file. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this is a low-severity vulnerability, requiring local access to the system for exploitation, and primarily impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:virt-who_project:virt-who:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 49th 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: virt-who-0:0.9-6.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: virt-who-0:0.10-8.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: virt-who-0:0.11-5.el7
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: virt-who

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0189Moderate

virt-who: plaintext hypervisor passwords in world-readable /etc/sysconfig/virt-who configuration file

Mar 26, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0430.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/28/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/67089
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry