GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhqMedium

OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
April 12, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/nova:< 12.0.0a0

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