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CVE-2026-24708
published 2026-02-18

CVE-2026-24708: 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…

high8.2CVSS 3.1
AVNACHPRLUINSCCNIHAH
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.

Affected

11 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiannova< nova 2:26.2.2-1~deb12u4 (bookworm)nova 2:26.2.2-1~deb12u4 (bookworm)
openstacknova< 30.2.230.2.2
openstacknova>= 0 < 2:22.4.0-1~deb11u72:22.4.0-1~deb11u7
openstacknova>= 0 < 2:26.2.2-1~deb12u42:26.2.2-1~deb12u4
openstacknova>= 0 < 2:31.0.0-6+deb13u22:31.0.0-6+deb13u2
openstacknova>= 0 < 2:32.1.0-72:32.1.0-7
openstacknova0 – 30.2.1
openstacknova>= 31.0.0 < 31.2.131.2.1
openstacknova31.0.0.0rc1 – 31.2.0
openstacknova>= 32.0.0 < 32.1.132.1.1
openstacknova32.0.0.0rc1 – 32.1.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
osv8.2HIGH