Information Exposure Affecting nova package, versions [12.0.0,12.0.3)[2015.1.0,2015.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NOVA-2371926
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2140  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 12.0.3, 2015.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.4 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.3 (liberty), when using raw storage and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted qcow2 header in an ephemeral or root disk.

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