OpenStack Cinder, glance, and Nova vulnerable to Path Traversal

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Cinder before 19.1.2, 20.x before 20.0.2, and 21.0.0; Glance before 23.0.1, 24.x before 24.1.1, and 25.0.0; and Nova before 24.1.2, 25.x before 25.0.2, and 26.0.0. By supplying a specially created VMDK flat image that references a specific backing file path, a...

PYSEC-2026-868 OpenStack Cinder, glance, and Nova vulnerable to Path Traversal

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Cinder before 19.1.2, 20.x before 20.0.2, and 21.0.0; Glance before 23.0.1, 24.x before 24.1.1, and 25.0.0; and Nova before 24.1.2, 25.x before 25.0.2, and 26.0.0. By supplying a specially created VMDK flat image that references a specific backing file path, a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Qemu

A flaw was discovered in QEMU. A specially crafted VMDK image could trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, potentially leading to a 12-byte leak of sensitive information or a denial of service condition DoS...

Cloud Hypervisor: Host File Exfiltration via QCOW Backing File Abuse

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-2243

A flaw was found in QEMU. A specially crafted VMDK image could trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, potentially leading to a 12-byte leak of sensitive information or a denial of service condition DoS...

CVE-2026-2243 Qemu-kvm: heap buffer out-of-bounds read in vmdk compressed grain parsing

A flaw was found in QEMU. A specially crafted VMDK image could trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, potentially leading to a 12-byte leak of sensitive information or a denial of service condition DoS...

EUVD-2024-29054

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-47951

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in OpenStack Cinder before 19.1.2, 20.x before 20.0.2, and 21.0.0; Glance before 23.0.1, 24.x before 24.1.1, and 25.0.0; and Nova before...

CVE-2025-47971

Buffer over-read in Virtual Hard Disk VHDX allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally...

CVE-2024-31144

For a brief summary of Xapi terminology, see: https://xapi-project.github.io/xen-api/overview.htmlobject-model-overview Xapi contains functionality to backup and restore metadata about Virtual Machines and Storage Repositories SRs. The metadata itself is stored in a Virtual Disk Image VDI inside ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-31144

For a brief summary of Xapi terminology, see: https://xapi-project.github.io/xen-api/overview.htmlobject-model-overview Xapi contains functionality to backup and restore metadata about Virtual Machines and Storage Repositories SRs. The metadata itself is stored in a Virtual Disk Image VDI inside ...

CVE-2024-31144

Xapi contains a metadata injection vulnerability in its backup and restore functionality. The system retrieves metadata from Virtual Disk Images (VDIs) by searching for the first match in alphanumeric UUID order. Because the host does not trust VDI content, a malicious guest can manipulate its ow...

CVE-2024-31144 Xapi: Metadata injection attack against backup/restore functionality

For a brief summary of Xapi terminology, see: https://xapi-project.github.io/xen-api/overview.htmlobject-model-overview Xapi contains functionality to backup and restore metadata about Virtual Machines and Storage Repositories SRs. The metadata itself is stored in a Virtual Disk Image VDI inside ...

CVE-2024-31144: Undefined Security Weakness

For a brief summary of Xapi terminology, see: https://xapi-project.github.io/xen-api/overview.htmlobject-model-overview Xapi contains functionality to backup and restore metadata about Virtual Machines and Storage Repositories SRs. The metadata itself is stored in a Virtual Disk Image VDI inside ...

Xenserver Storage: Comprehensive Guide

Introduction This article will assist you in resolving issues with unavailable VDI Virtual Disk Image. Overview of the Issue In different situations, XenServer experiences issues with starting VM’s , taking a snapshot or scan of SR’s and failing with error “VDI is not available ”. This article wi...

OpenStack: malicious qcow2/vmdk images

An input validation flaw was discovered in how multiple OpenStack services validate images with backing file references. An authenticated attacker could provide a malicious image via upload, or by creating and modifying an image from an existing volume. Validation of images can be triggered durin...

Add New VMs to MCS catalog Failed with Error "CreateClone Failed: No Virtual Disk Image Exists"

Received an Inner Error when adding new VMs to an existing MCS catalog: CreateClone failed: no virtual disk image exists with ID 'xxxx'...

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...

USN-5835-4 cinder vulnerability

USN-5835-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Cinder. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In addition, a regression was fixed for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou discovered that Cinder incorrectl...

USN-5835-3 nova vulnerability

Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou discovered that Nova incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An authenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive information...