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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434569

Description

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

 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2
 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a
 compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096. (CVE-2013-4463)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434569

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4463

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:N/I:N/A:H

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: 10/31/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4463

BID: 63467