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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-NOVA-597177
  • published 2 Aug 2020
  • disclosed 2 Aug 2020
  • credit Paul Carlton

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

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
3.3 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

3.3 low
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Red Hat

3.3 low