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PYSEC-2026-881

OpenStack Nova Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-881 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

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

Details

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova before 2011.3.1, when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage image-registration method are enabled, allow remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted (1) tarball or (2) manifest.

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Affected packages

PyPI/nova

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 12.0.0a0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4596[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/76363226bd8533256f7795bba358d7f4b8a6c9e6[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ad3241929ea00569c74505ed002208ce360c667e[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/885167[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/894755[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova[PACKAGE]
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06105.html[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/nova[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qr62-r9xc-r2gj[ADVISORY]