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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-v725-c588-h936)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423149

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 23.2.2, 24.x before 24.1.2, and 25.x before 25.0.2. By
 creating a neutron port with the direct vnic_type, creating an instance bound to that port, and then
 changing the vnic_type of the bound port to macvtap, an authenticated user may cause the compute service
 to fail to restart, resulting in a possible denial of service. Only Nova deployments configured with SR-
 IOV are affected. (CVE-2022-37394)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v725-c588-h936

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 423149

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37394

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37394