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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-63fq-8fp9-vhwq)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434805

Description

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

 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota
 for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion
 and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.
 (CVE-2013-1838)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-63fq-8fp9-vhwq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434805

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1838

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:N/A:H

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1838

BID: 58492

cwe: CWE-770