Improper Input Validation Affecting nova package, versions [,27.4.0)[28.0.0,28.2.0)[29.0.0,29.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

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EPSS
0.84% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-NOVA-7430273
  • published8 Jul 2024
  • disclosed2 Jul 2024
  • creditMartin Kaesberger

Introduced: 2 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-32498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 27.4.0, 28.2.0, 29.1.0 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 Improper Input Validation in QCOW2 image processing. 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 and unbounded memory/CPU consumption.

Note: All Cinder deployments are affected; only Glance deployments with image conversion enabled are affected; all Nova deployments are affected.

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1