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CVE-2014-0134 json

OpenStack Nova host data leak to vm instance in rescue mode

published 2014-05-08 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w429-xc55-hc48 , PYSEC-2014-112 , EUVD-2014-0036

cvss
3.1
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The instance rescue mode in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 before 2013.2.3 and Icehouse before 2014.1, when using libvirt to spawn images and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read certain compute host files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image.

Patch / fix

  • pypi nova 12.0.0a0
  • nova Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2013.2.2-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0134

  • openstack-nova openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • python-nova openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-api openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-cert openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-cells openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-common openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-compute openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-console openstack 4 2013.2.3-7.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0578

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0134 updated cvss 3.5

openstack-nova: Nova host data leak to vm instance in rescue mode

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) openstack-nova
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 openstack-nova
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 python-nova 2013.2.3-7.el6ost, openstack-nova 2013.2.3-7.el6ost, openstack-nova-api 2013.2.3-7.el6ost, openstack-nova-cert 2013.2.3-7.el6ost, openstack-nova-cells 2013.2.3-7.el6ost, openstack-nova-common 2013.2.3-7.el6ost, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0578

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi nova
<12.0.0a0
12.0.0a0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.