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Medium USN-5835-3 1 CVE

nova vulnerability

Published Jan 31, 2023 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS nova 2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS nova 3:25.1.0-0ubuntu1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.7
    CVE-2022-47951

    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 refe…

    nova nova glance nova Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-47951