Information Exposure Affecting nova package, versions [0,26.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-NOVA-3247617
  • published25 Jan 2023
  • disclosed24 Jan 2023
  • creditSébastien Meriot

Introduced: 24 Jan 2023

CVE-2022-47951  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-552  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 26.1.0 or higher.

Overview

nova is an OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide variety of compute technologies, including: libvirt (KVM, Xen, LXC and more), Hyper-V, VMware, XenServer, OpenStack Ironic and PowerVM.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure when supplying a specially created VMDK flat image that references a specific backing file path, an authenticated user may convince systems to return a copy of that file's contents from the server, resulting in unauthorized access to potentially sensitive data.

CVSS Scores

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