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

  - The i_create_images_and_backing (aka create_images_and_backing) method in libvirt driver in OpenStack
    Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Havana, and Icehouse, when using KVM live block migration, does not properly
    create all expected files, which allows attackers to obtain snapshot root disk contents of other users via
    ephemeral storage. (CVE-2013-7130)

Fix root disk leak in live migration - CVE-2013-7130

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0366 advisory.

    OpenStack Compute (nova) launches and schedules large networks of virtual     machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform.
    Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to     orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances, managing     networks, and controlling access through users and projects.

    A flaw was found in the way the libvirt driver handled short-lived disk     back-up files on Compute nodes. An authenticated attacker could use this     flaw to create a large number of such files, exhausting all available space     on Compute node disks, and potentially causing a denial of service.
    Note that only Compute setups using the libvirt driver were affected.
    (CVE-2013-7048)

    It was discovered that the libvirt driver did not properly handle live     migration of virtual machines. An authenticated attacker could use this     flaw to gain access to a snapshot of a migrated virtual machine. Note that     only setups using KVM live block migration were affected. (CVE-2013-7130)

    It was found that OpenStack Compute did not properly reapply existing     security groups after migrating or resizing a virtual machine. This could     cause virtual machine instances to be unintentionally exposed on the     network. Note that only setups using the XenAPI back end were affected.
    (CVE-2013-4497)

    Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack Project for reporting     CVE-2013-7130. Upstream acknowledges Loganathan Parthipan as the original     reporter of CVE-2013-7130.

    This update also fixes the following bug:

    * Prior to this update, the cache mechanism did not consider existing     network interfaces when building the nework list. After any change in the     network interfaces, only the interface modified last was shown when listing     or getting the details of an instance. With this update, the cache     mechanism considers all existing instances when it is being refreshed.
    (BZ#1038239)

    All openstack-nova users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,     which correct these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2247-1 advisory.

    Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Nova did not properly set up its sudo     configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Nova, this vulnerability could be used to     escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-1068)

    Bernhard M. Wiedemann and Pedraig Brady discovered that OpenStack Nova did not properly verify the virtual     size of a QCOW2 images. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to create a denial of service     via disk consumption. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-4463, CVE-2013-4469)

    JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso discovered that OpenStack Nova did not enforce SSL connections when Nova was     configured to use QPid and qpid_protocol is set to 'ssl'. If a remote attacker were able to perform a     machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. Ubuntu does not     use QPid with Nova by default. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-6491)

    Loganathan Parthipan discovered that OpenStack Nova did not properly create expected files during KVM live     block migration. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to obtain root disk snapshot contents     via ephemeral storage. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-7130)

    Stanislaw Pitucha discovered that OpenStack Nova did not enforce the image format when rescuing an     instance. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to read host files. In the default     installation, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt guest AppArmor profile. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-0134)

    Mark Heckmann discovered that OpenStack Nova did not enforce RBAC policy when adding security group rules     via the EC2 API. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to gain unintended access to this API.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-0167)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
432917	SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-99rx-9x8v-9j8p)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	8/11/2025	7/2/2026	high
432917	SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-99rx-9x8v-9j8p)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	8/11/2025	7/2/2026	high
72310	Fedora 19 : openstack-nova-2013.1.4-6.fc19 (2014-1516)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	2/5/2014	1/11/2021	high
234411	RHEL 6 : openstack-nova (RHSA-2014:0366)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	4/15/2025	4/15/2025	high
72309	Fedora 20 : openstack-nova-2013.2.1-4.fc20 (2014-1463)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	2/5/2014	1/11/2021	high
76109	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities (USN-2247-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	6/18/2014	9/3/2025	high

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