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Medium USN-5835-5 1 CVE

nova vulnerability

Published Feb 9, 2023 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

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 could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat
image and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive
information.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS nova 2:17.0.13-0ubuntu5.2

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