PYSEC-2026-2686 OpenStack Nova: Nova scheduler hint injection bypasses Placement resource claims and scheduling constraints

Affects - Nova: =18.0.0 =32.0.0 =33.0.0 33.0.2 Description Erichen from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences reported that Nova's server create API does not strip internal scheduler hints. An authenticated user can bypass Placement resource claims and scheduling...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : Nova vulnerability (USN-8434-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8434-1 advisory. It was discovered that Nova did not strip internal nova-prefixed scheduler hints supplied by users on instance creation. An attack...