Information Exposure Affecting nova package, versions [2013.2,2013.2.4][2014.1,2014.1.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NOVA-2371936
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nova to version 2014.1.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure api/metadata/handler.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.4, 2014.x before 2014.1.2, and Juno before Juno-2, when proxying metadata requests through Neutron, makes it easier for remote attackers to guess instance ID signatures via a brute-force attack that relies on timing differences in responses to instance metadata requests.

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