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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-hrv9-4x4c-9jc8)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432409

Description

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

 - The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows
 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting
 instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.
 (CVE-2013-6437)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrv9-4x4c-9jc8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432409

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

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

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6437

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6437

BID: 64416