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Advisory details: pypa / nova/PYSEC-2026-878
Advisory ID pypa/nova/PYSEC-2026-878
Aliases CVE-2014-0167
GHSA-p258-xmh3-72pv
PYSEC-2026-878
Summary OpenStack Compute (Nova) allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via API requests The Nova EC2 API security group implementation in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 does not enforce RBAC policies for (1) add_rules, (2) remove_rules, (3) destroy, and other unspecified methods in compute/api.py when using non-default policies, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via these API requests.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.7
Risk 2.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv4 5.2 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2026-878.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084868
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1290537
https://opendev.org/openstack/nova
https://pypi.org/project/nova
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/26
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1
CVE-2014-0167 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0167
CVE-2014-0167 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0167
GHSA-p258-xmh3-72pv https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p258-xmh3-72pv
RHSA-2014:1084 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1084

No exploits are available.

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Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2026-878.yaml
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