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1 vulnerability found for nova by openstack
CVE-2026-24708 (GCVE-0-2026-24708)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-18 00:00 – Updated: 2026-02-21 04:31
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 30.2.2, 31 before 31.2.1, and 32 before 32.1.1. By writing a malicious QCOW header to a root or ephemeral disk and then triggering a resize, a user may convince Nova's Flat image backend to call qemu-img without a format restriction, resulting in an unsafe image resize operation that could destroy data on the host system. Only compute nodes using the Flat image backend (usually configured with use_cow_images=False) are affected.
Severity ?
8.2 (High)
CWE
- CWE-669 - Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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