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-2012-3361

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom 2012.2, Essex 2012.1, and Diablo 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image...

SUSE CVE-2013-2096

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana 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 creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data...

SUSE CVE-2013-2255

HTTPSConnections in OpenStack Keystone 2013, OpenStack Compute 2013.1, and possibly other OpenStack components, fail to validate server-side SSL certificates...

SUSE CVE-2013-4261

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection pool consumption, as demonstrated using multiple requests that send...

SUSE CVE-2013-4497

The XenAPI backend in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana before 2013.2 does not properly apply security groups 1 when resizing an image or 2 during live migration, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions...

SUSE CVE-2014-2573

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute Nova 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service resource consumption by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the imag...

SUSE CVE-2014-3517

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...

SUSE CVE-2014-3708

OpenStack Compute Nova before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via an IP filter in a list active servers API request...

USN-5835-5: Nova vulnerability

USN-5835-3 fixed vulnerabilities in Nova. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou discovered that Nova incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An authenticated attacker cou...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5337-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

GHSA-M454-CM7H-RQHH OpenStack Nova Directory traversal vulnerability

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...

GHSA-43CM-73PX-5V4M OpenStack Compute (Nova) Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors

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...

OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack

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...

GHSA-27Q4-38QF-M25H OpenStack Compute Nova Improper Access Control

The XenAPI backend in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana before 2013.2 does not properly apply security groups 1 when resizing an image or 2 during live migration, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions...

OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana 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 creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data...

GHSA-M674-HMX2-FFHQ OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana 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 creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data...

OpenStack Compute (Nova) allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via API requests

The Nova EC2 API security group implementation in OpenStack Compute Nova 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 does not enforce RBAC policies for 1 addrules, 2 removerules, 3 destroy, and other unspecified methods in compute/api.py when using non-default policies, which allows...

GHSA-P258-XMH3-72PV OpenStack Compute (Nova) allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via API requests

The Nova EC2 API security group implementation in OpenStack Compute Nova 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 does not enforce RBAC policies for 1 addrules, 2 removerules, 3 destroy, and other unspecified methods in compute/api.py when using non-default policies, which allows...

GHSA-2W87-5QCJ-J6GX OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of service due to improper validation of virtual size of QCOW2 image

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...