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OpenStack Nova Potential Xen connection password leak via StorageError

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 14, 2024

Package

pip nova (pip)

Affected versions

>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.1

Patched versions

12.0.1

Description

The volume_utils._parse_volume_info function in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty) includes the connection_info dictionary in the StorageError message when using the Xen backend, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by reading log files or other unspecified vectors.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 15, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed May 14, 2024
Last updated May 14, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.373%
(73rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-8749

GHSA ID

GHSA-c36r-g737-9qp8

Source code

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