GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-17 Modified 2025-04-12 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2013-2096
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
nova
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2025-04-12

Affected packages

• PyPI nova: < 12.0.0a0 → fixed in 12.0.0a0

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2013-2096 OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References