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CVE-2016-5411

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5411 describes a critical vulnerability in Red Hat QuickStart Cloud Installer (QCI) before 1.0 GA, where the engine-DC-config.py file was created with world-readable permissions, exposing the root password of the deployed system. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:quickstart_cloud_installer:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0228 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer 1Fixed in: Distribution

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5411Moderate

QCI: creates world readable /var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/engine-DC-config.py contains sensitive password

Aug 27, 2016

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/92669
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry