Information Exposure Affecting nova package, versions [12.0.0,12.0.1)[2015.1.0,2015.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NOVA-2371922
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2016

CVE-2015-7548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 12.0.1, 2015.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty), when using libvirt to spawn instances and use_cow_images is set to false, allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image and requesting a snapshot.

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