GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq
Aliases
Published
2022-05-17T04:55:07Z
Modified
2026-07-07T11:56:25Z
Severity
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2025-04-12T03:16:18Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2013-07-09T17:55:00Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / nova

Package

Name
nova
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Purl
pkg:pypi/nova

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
12.0.0a0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq/GHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhq.json"