{"id":"USN-5835-3","summary":"nova vulnerability","details":"Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin, and Damien Rannou\ndiscovered that Nova incorrectly handled VMDK image processing. An\nauthenticated attacker could possibly supply a specially crafted VMDK flat\nimage and obtain arbitrary files from the server containing sensitive\ninformation.\n","modified":"2026-04-27T16:19:19.432451Z","published":"2023-01-31T13:15:50Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2022-47951"],"upstream":["CVE-2022-47951","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-47951"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5835-3"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-47951"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nova","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"}]}],"versions":["2:20.0.0-0ubuntu1","2:21.0.0~b1~git2019120415.45fb747c98-0ubuntu1","2:21.0.0~b2~git2020021008.1fcd74730d-0ubuntu2","2:21.0.0~b2~git2020021008.1fcd74730d-0ubuntu4","2:21.0.0~b2~git2020021008.1fcd74730d-0ubuntu5","2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2","2:21.0.0-0ubuntu0.20.04.1","2:21.0.0-0ubuntu0.20.04.2","2:21.1.0-0ubuntu1","2:21.1.1-0ubuntu2","2:21.1.2-0ubuntu1","2:21.2.0-0ubuntu1","2:21.2.1-0ubuntu1","2:21.2.2-0ubuntu1","2:21.2.3-0ubuntu1","2:21.2.4-0ubuntu1","2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"nova-ajax-console-proxy","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-metadata","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-os-compute","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-os-volume","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-cells","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-common","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-kvm","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-libvirt","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-lxc","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-qemu","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-vmware","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-xen","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-conductor","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-novncproxy","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-scheduler","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-serialproxy","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-spiceproxy","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-volume","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"},{"binary_name":"python3-nova","binary_version":"2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.1"}],"availability":"No 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