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PYSEC-2026-884

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-884 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'nova>=2013.2.4'

Details

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 responses to instance metadata requests.

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Affected packages

PyPI/nova
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2013.2.4
Fixpip install --upgrade 'nova>=2013.2.4'

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