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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-43cm-73px-5v4m)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433038

Description

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

 - The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly
 enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary
 flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.
 (CVE-2013-4278)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-43cm-73px-5v4m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433038

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

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: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4278

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 8/6/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4278

BID: 62016