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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-p258-xmh3-72pv)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417208

Description

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

 - The Nova EC2 API security group implementation in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and
 icehouse before icehouse-rc2 does not enforce RBAC policies for (1) add_rules, (2) remove_rules, (3)
 destroy, and other unspecified methods in compute/api.py when using non-default policies, which allows
 remote authenticated users to gain privileges via these API requests. (CVE-2014-0167)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p258-xmh3-72pv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417208

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 5.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0167

BID: 66753

cwe: CWE-862