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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416198

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and
 earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML
 Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.
 (CVE-2013-4179)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416198

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4179

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4179

BID: 61692

cwe: CWE-119