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CVE-2012-5516

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5516 describes a data remanence vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) prior to version 3.1. When virtual machine disks are moved between storage domains, the system fails to securely wipe the original disk data, potentially allowing local users to recover sensitive information. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required for a low-impact information disclosure. 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
<= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 28th 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: RHEV Manager version 3.0Fixed in: org.ovirt.engine-root-0:3.1.0-32
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2Fixed in: ovirt-engine-backend

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5516Moderate

rhev-m: MoveDisk ignores the disk's wipe-after-delete property

Dec 4, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1506.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80546
securityfocus.com / bid/56825
securitytracker.com / id