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CVE-2015-5160

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5160 describes a vulnerability in libvirt versions prior to 2.2, affecting products like Red Hat, where Ceph credentials are exposed on the qemu command line when using RADOS Block Device (RBD). This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) allows local users to obtain sensitive information through process listings due to insufficient protection of confidential data. 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
< 2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libvirt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5160Moderate

libvirt: Ceph id/key leaked in the process list

Aug 10, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / ossn/+bug/1686743
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
wiki.openstack.org / wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0079
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/07/21/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory