Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova)

Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova)

CVE-2016-2140 · LOW Severity

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The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.4 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.3 (liberty), when using raw storage and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted qcow2 header in an ephemeral or root disk.

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