CVE-2010-2223: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H or rhev-hypervisor) before 5.5-2.2 does not properly perform VM post-zeroing after the removal of a virtual machine's data, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information by examining the disk blocks associated with a deleted virtual machine.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: up to and including 5.4-2.1

Published 2010-06-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.