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Ubuntu 11.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1305-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57306

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Synopsis

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

Description

David Black discovered that Nova did not properly perform input validation during image registration. An attacker could exploit this by registering a crafted image using the EC2 API or S3/RegisterImage method and overwrite files as the nova user.

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Solution

Update the affected python-nova package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1305-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57306

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1305-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4596

BID: 51047

USN: 1305-1