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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-46r8-9cj7-pw6g)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434748

Description

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

 - The (1) EC2 and (2) OS APIs in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo
 (2011.3) do not properly check the protocol when security groups are created and the network protocol is
 not specified entirely in lowercase, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
 (CVE-2012-2654)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46r8-9cj7-pw6g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434748

Version: Revision 1.2

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2654

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2654

BID: 53875

cwe: CWE-20