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Ubuntu 11.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1247-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56646

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

An information leak was discovered in Nova. An attacker with access to a valid EC2_ACCESS_KEY could obtain the corresponding EC2_SECRET_KEY for that user.

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Solution

Update the affected python-nova package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1247-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56646

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1247-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2011

Reference Information

USN: 1247-1