Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting nova package, versions [,29.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-NOVA-7554718
  • published24 Jul 2024
  • disclosed24 Jul 2024
  • creditArnaud Morin

Introduced: 24 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-40767  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 29.2.0 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 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor due to improper input validation. An attacker can access sensitive data by supplying a specially crafted image that masquerades as a different format, which then references files on the server.

CVSS Scores

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