{"id":"USN-2325-1","summary":"nova vulnerability","details":"Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenStack Nova would sometimes respond with\nvariable times when comparing authentication tokens. If nova were\nconfigured to proxy metadata requests via Neutron, a remote authenticated\nattacker could exploit this to conduct timing attacks and ascertain\nconfiguration details of another instance.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:49Z","published":"2014-08-21T21:20:18Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3517"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-3517","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3517"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2325-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3517"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nova","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1","1:2013.2-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu3","1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu4","1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.2","1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-ajax-console-proxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-api"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-api-ec2"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-api-metadata"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-api-os-compute"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-api-os-volume"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-baremetal"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-cells"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-cert"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-common"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute-kvm"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute-libvirt"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute-lxc"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute-qemu"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute-vmware"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute-xen"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-conductor"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-console"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-consoleauth"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-network"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-novncproxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-objectstore"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-scheduler"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-spiceproxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-volume"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-xvpvncproxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"python-nova"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2325-1.json","cves_map":{"cves":[{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}],"id":"CVE-2014-3517"}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}