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CVE-2016-5432

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5432 describes a low-severity information disclosure vulnerability in the ovirt-engine-provisiondb utility within Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Engine 4.0. A local attacker with low privileges could read log files to obtain sensitive database provisioning information. With a CVSS score of 3.3, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and only impacts confidentiality, with no integrity or availability concerns. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion beyond a single mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.3LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.2%
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 80th percentile among its peer group of 1,509 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV Engine version 4.0Fixed in: org.ovirt.engine-root-0:4.0.4.4-1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: ovirt-engine

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5432Moderate

ovirt-engine: ovirt-engine-provisiondb logs contain DB username and password in plain text

Aug 30, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1967.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
gerrit.ovirt.org
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/92694