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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-49jv-37hm-6gfp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434456

Description

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

 - The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.4 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.3 (liberty),
 when using raw storage and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read
 arbitrary files via a crafted qcow2 header in an ephemeral or root disk. (CVE-2016-2140)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49jv-37hm-6gfp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434456

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2140

BID: 84277

cwe: CWE-200