OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.5 · red hatNVD modified 2026-10-30 18:03
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 12
- http://osvdb.org/88419
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56904
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0208 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5625 vdb-entry, x_refsource_redhat
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884293
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca499a5f
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495cbd354
- https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2