CVE-2012-5516

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) before 3.1, when moving disks between storage domains, does not properly wipe-after-delete, which prevents disks from being securely deleted and might allow local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2013-01-04 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-5516 is rated Low Risk (18.1/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.35%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5516

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.07% 0.35% +0.28%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.07% +0.03%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5516

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-5516

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-5516

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5516

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5516

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager <= 3.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager 2.2 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager 2.2.3 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager 2.2.4 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5516

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