Information Exposure Affecting nova package, versions [,18.2.4)[9.0.0.0rc1,19.1.0)[20.0.0.0rc1,20.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-NOVA-597177
  • published2 Aug 2020
  • disclosed2 Aug 2020
  • creditPaul Carlton

Introduced: 2 Aug 2020

CVE-2015-9543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 18.2.4, 19.1.0, 20.1.0 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. It could leak console auth tokens into log files. An attacker with read access to the service's logs may obtain tokens used for console access.

Note: All Nova setups using novncproxy are affected.

CVSS Scores

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