CVE-2017-7510

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7510 describes a critical information disclosure vulnerability in oVirt-engine 4.1, where the root password of cloud-init provisioned hosts could be exposed via the REST interface. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this flaw allows an authenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ovirt-engine:4.1.0:-::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.02%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

59.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0102 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.1Fixed in: org.ovirt.engine-root-0:4.1.4.2-1

View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7510Moderate

4: ovirt-engine exposes cloud-init root password via REST API

Jul 27, 2017

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory