Security advisory

{
  "id": "88c4770e1e4ce49c8d2f5cb6ff91c903be72499bd0944dbc3672554239e31abb",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2140",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-2140",
    "summary": "The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.4 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.3 (liberty), when using raw storage and use_cow_images is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted qcow2 header in an ephemeral or root disk.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-2140",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-2140",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-2140",
        "GHSA-49jv-37hm-6gfp",
        "PYSEC-2026-864"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/openstack/nova",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "6df6ad3ff32f2b1fe2978df1032002548ad8eb66"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6fdf1c87b1149e8b395eaa9f4cbf27263cf96ac6"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "8397b6464af520903f546ce4c6d51a2eb5b4c8a8"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "cd81512f87476b0bad29db379d3b92b22723cd2e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "12.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "12.0.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2015.1.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2015.1.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "12.0.2",
            "2015.1.3",
            "12.0.1",
            "12.0.0.0rc3",
            "12.0.0",
            "2015.1.2",
            "2015.1.1",
            "2015.1.0rc3",
            "2015.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2140.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:18.025937503Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1548450",
        "https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-007.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-2140",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429688,
  "published_at": "2016-04-12T14:59:10.12+00:00"
}