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CVE-2016-2140
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…
Medium5.3EPSS 2.1%
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (4)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1548450 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-007.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 84277 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160308 Re: [OSSA 2016-007] Nova host data leak through resize/migration (CVE-2016-2140) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-49jv-37hm-6gfp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .