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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-w429-xc55-hc48)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434578

Description

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

 - The instance rescue mode in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 before 2013.2.3 and Icehouse before 2014.1,
 when using libvirt to spawn images and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users
 to read certain compute host files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image. (CVE-2014-0134)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w429-xc55-hc48

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 434578

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0134

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.3

Threat Score: 0.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0134

BID: 66495

cwe: CWE-200