OpenStack Nova host data leak to vm instance in rescue mode
Low severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated May 14, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 8, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
May 14, 2024
Last updated
May 14, 2024
The instance rescue mode in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 before 2013.2.3 and Icehouse before 2014.1, when using libvirt to spawn images and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read certain compute host files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image.
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