Vulnerability in nova (CVE-2026-46448)
Summary
Vulnerability in nova (CVE-2026-46448). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 33.0.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Affects
- Nova: >=18.0.0 <31.3.1, >=32.0.0 <32.2.1, >=33.0.0 <33.0.2
Description
Erichen from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences reported that Nova's server create API does not strip internal
scheduler hints. An authenticated user can bypass Placement resource
claims and scheduling constraint enforcement, including availability
zone, host aggregate, and image trait restrictions. The resulting
instance has no Placement allocation, which can lead to compute node
resource exhaustion and cross-tenant data persistence on NVMe devices
after instance deletion. Deployments running Nova 18.0.0 or later are
affected.
Patches
- https://review.opendev.org/993604 (2025.1/epoxy)
- https://review.opendev.org/993603 (2025.2/flamingo)
- https://review.opendev.org/993602 (2026.1/gazpacho)
- https://review.opendev.org/993601 (2026.2/hibiscus)
Credits
- Erichen from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CVE-2026-46448)
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-46448 has been found in nova.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.4/10.
What to do: upgrade nova to 33.0.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "nova CVE-2026-46448" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-46448 (nova) — CWE-669 / CVSS v3 5.4
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 33.0.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-669) exists in nova.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of nova.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.4/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 33.0.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'nova' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'nova' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
novaを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade nova to 33.0.2ステージング環境で 33.0.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-46448 nova
References
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web bugs.launchpad.net
- web openwall.com
- web openwall.com
- web github.com
- web review.opendev.org
- web review.opendev.org
- web review.opendev.org
- web review.opendev.org
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web pypi.org