CVE-2015-5160: Libvirt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libvirt before 2.2 includes Ceph credentials on the qemu command line when using RADOS Block Device (aka RBD), which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a process listing.

Affected products

• Libvirt Libvirt: before 2.2 (fixed in 2.2)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 3.0 only

Published 2018-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.