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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412957

Description

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

 - The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass
 the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue
 state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this
 vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573. (CVE-2014-3608)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412957

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

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: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3608

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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3608

BID: 70220