CVE-2026-24708 (GCVE-0-2026-24708)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-18 00:00 – Updated: 2026-02-19 19:08
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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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-669 - Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres
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Vendor Product Version
OpenStack Nova Affected: 0 , < 30.2.2 (semver)
Affected: 31.0.0 , < 31.2.1 (semver)
Affected: 32.0.0 , < 32.1.1 (semver)
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