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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-rwhr-h69g-8qmq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433044

Description

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

 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances,
 does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows
 attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).
 (CVE-2012-5625)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwhr-h69g-8qmq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433044

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5625

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5625

BID: 56904

cwe: CWE-200