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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434940
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, does not verify
the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system
disk consumption) by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount
of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096. (CVE-2013-4469)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 434940
Version: Revision 1.2
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 8/20/2025
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: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 1.9
Temporal Score: 1.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4469
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 5/17/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-4469
BID: 63468