CVE-2024-0822 — An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in overt-engine

An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in overt-engine. This flaw allows the creation of users in the system without authentication due to a flaw in the CreateUserSession command.

01What is this vulnerability?

An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in overt-engine. This flaw allows the creation of users in the system without authentication due to a flaw in the CreateUserSession command.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
?	?	4.5.0
Red Hat	Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4	0:4.5.3.10-1.el8ev

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-01-25T15:18:20.439Z
• Last modified: 2025-11-20T07:09:22.416Z

09References

• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0934
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0822
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258509
• github.com — https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/914