CVE-2016-2140 (GCVE-0-2016-2140)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-12 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-03-08 00:00
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