openstack: Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor

A flaw was found in OpenStack-nova, Openstack-glance, and Openstack-cinder. By supplying a specially created VMDK flat image that references a specific backing file path, an authenticated user may convince systems to return a copy of that file's contents from the server, resulting in unauthorized...

openstack: Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor

A flaw was found in OpenStack-nova, Openstack-glance, and Openstack-cinder. By supplying a specially created VMDK flat image that references a specific backing file path, an authenticated user may convince systems to return a copy of that file's contents from the server, resulting in unauthorized...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 (openstack-nova) security update

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 Wallaby. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

SUSE CVE-2012-1585

OpenStack Compute Nova Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service Nova-API log file and disk consumption via a long server name...

SUSE CVE-2012-2101

Openstack Compute Nova Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service CPU and hard drive consumption via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules...

SUSE CVE-2012-2654

The 1 EC2 and 2 OS APIs in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom 2012.2, Essex 2012.1, and Diablo 2011.3 do not properly check the protocol when security groups are created and the network protocol is not specified entirely in lowercase, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restriction...

SUSE CVE-2012-3360

Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom 2012.2 and Essex 2012.1, when used over libvirt-based hypervisors, allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the disk image via a .. dot dot in the path attribute of a file element...

SUSE CVE-2012-3371

The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom 2012.2 and Essex 2012.1, when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service excessive database lookup calls and server hang via a request with many repeated IDs in the...

SUSE CVE-2012-3447

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute Nova 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an...

SUSE CVE-2012-5625

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume PV content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume L...

SUSE CVE-2013-0208

The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the blockdevicemapping parameter...

SUSE CVE-2013-0326

OpenStack nova base images permissions are world readable...

SUSE CVE-2013-0335

OpenStack Compute Nova Grizzly, Folsom 2012.2, and Essex 2012.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain access to a VM in opportunistic circumstances by using the VNC token for a deleted VM that was bound to the same VNC port...

SUSE CVE-2013-1838

OpenStack Compute Nova Grizzly, Folsom 2012.2, and Essex 2012.1 does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function...

SUSE CVE-2013-2256

OpenStack Compute Nova before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-2 does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:ispublic property, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information flavor properties, boot arbitrary flavors, and possibly have other unspecified impacts by...

SUSE CVE-2013-4179

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute Nova Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption and crash via an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664...

SUSE CVE-2013-4278

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:ispublic property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for...

SUSE CVE-2013-4463

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service host file system disk consumption via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096...

SUSE CVE-2013-4469

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when usecowimages is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service host file system disk consumption by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contai...

SUSE CVE-2013-6419

Interaction error in OpenStack Nova and Neutron before Havana 2013.2.1 and icehouse-1 does not validate the instance ID of the tenant making a request, which allows remote tenants to obtain sensitive metadata by spoofing the device ID that is bound to a port, which is not properly handled by 1...