CVE-2018-1062

ovirt-engine: When Wipe After Delete (WAD) and Enable Discard are both enabled for a VM disk, discarded data might not be wiped after the disk is removed.

Published Mar 6, 2018 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
A vulnerability was discovered in oVirt 4.1.x before 4.1.9, where the combination of Enable Discard and Wipe After Delete flags for VM disks managed by oVirt, could cause a disk to be incompletely zeroed when removed from a VM. If the same storage blocks happen to be later allocated to a new disk attached to another VM, potentially sensitive data could be revealed to privileged users of that VM.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-11715 A vulnerability was discovered in oVirt 4.1.x before 4.1.9, where the combination of Enable Discard and Wipe After Delete flags for VM disks managed by oVirt, could cause a disk to be incompletely zeroed when removed from a VM. If the same storage blocks happen to be later allocated to a new disk attached to another VM, potentially sensitive data could be revealed to privileged users of that VM.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 2:16 AM
Reserved
Dec 4, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 6, 2018, 3:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:50 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 6, 2018, 12:00 AM