{"id":"USN-2325-1","summary":"nova vulnerability","details":"Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenStack Nova would sometimes respond with\nvariable times when comparing authentication tokens. If nova were\nconfigured to proxy metadata requests via Neutron, a remote authenticated\nattacker could exploit this to conduct timing attacks and ascertain\nconfiguration details of another instance.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:49Z","published":"2014-08-21T21:20:18Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3517"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-3517","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3517"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2325-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3517"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nova","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1","1:2013.2-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu3","1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu4","1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.2","1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"nova-ajax-console-proxy","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-ec2","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-metadata","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-os-compute","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-api-os-volume","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-baremetal","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-cells"},{"binary_name":"nova-cert","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-common","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"nova-compute"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-kvm","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-libvirt","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-lxc","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-qemu","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-vmware","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-compute-xen","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-conductor","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-console","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-consoleauth","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-network","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-novncproxy","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-objectstore","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-scheduler","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-spiceproxy","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-volume","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nova-xvpvncproxy","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"python-nova","binary_version":"1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2014-3517","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2325-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}