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CVE-2026-46448 medium CVSS 5.4

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

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.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-669) exists in nova.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of nova.

🔥 Severity

Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.4/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 33.0.2.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

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

  1. 1
    Identify 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。

  2. 2
    Apply 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。

  3. 3
    Post-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

pip nova
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"33.0.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

References

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