LOW 2.8

PYSEC-2026-690

Openstack nova qcow format could expose host filesystem information

Details

Versions of nova before 2012.1 could expose hypervisor host files to a guest operating system when processing a maliciously constructed qcow filesystem.

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Affected packages

PyPI / nova

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 12.0.0a0

Fix pip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3147 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ff9d353b2f4fee469e530fbc8dc231a41f6fed84 [WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/853330 [WEB]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hudson-openstack/nova/trunk/revision/1604 [WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/nova [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqfx-4x4w-vmwp [ADVISORY]