Information Exposure Affecting nova package, versions [,2013.2.3)[2014.0,2014.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NOVA-2371912
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 May 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 May 2014

CVE-2014-0134  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 2013.2.3, 2014.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The instance rescue mode in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 before 2013.2.3 and Icehouse before 2014.1, when using libvirt to spawn images and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read certain compute host files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image.

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