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Ubuntu 11.10 : nova vulnerability (USN-1326-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57498

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Synopsis

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

Description

Nachi Ueno, Rohit Karajgi, and Venkatesan Ravikumar discovered that when Nova is configured to use the OpenStack API, it would not correctly enforce access controls on certain incoming requests. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to change resources of arbitrary tenants.

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Solution

Update the affected nova-api package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1326-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57498

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1326-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2012

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: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0030

USN: 1326-1