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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-22w9-j288-8p9w)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436934

Description

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

 - Interaction error in OpenStack Nova and Neutron before Havana 2013.2.1 and icehouse-1 does not validate
 the instance ID of the tenant making a request, which allows remote tenants to obtain sensitive metadata
 by spoofing the device ID that is bound to a port, which is not properly handled by (1)
 api/metadata/handler.py in Nova and (2) the neutron-metadata-agent (agent/metadata/agent.py) in Neutron.
 (CVE-2013-6419)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-22w9-j288-8p9w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436934

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/26/2026

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6419

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: 12/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6419

BID: 64250

cwe: CWE-200