GHSA-m4f3-qp2w-gwh6HighCVSS 8.2

OpenStack Nova calls qemu-img without format restrictions for resize

Published
February 18, 2026
Last Modified
February 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 30.2.2, 31 before 31.2.1, and 32 before 32.1.1. By writing a malicious QCOW header to a root or ephemeral disk and then triggering a resize, a user may convince Nova's Flat image backend to call qemu-img without a format restriction, resulting in an unsafe image resize operation that could destroy data on the host system. Only compute nodes using the Flat image backend (usually configured with use_cow_images=False) are affected.

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/Nova:>= 32.0.0.0rc1, <= 32.1.0
  • pip/Nova:>= 31.0.0.0rc1, <= 31.2.0
  • pip/Nova:<= 30.2.1

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