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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-pjvw-p2v5-wf6q)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434527

Description

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

 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of
 service (Nova-API log file and disk consumption) via a long server name. (CVE-2012-1585)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjvw-p2v5-wf6q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434527

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1585

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1585

BID: 52831