PYSEC-2026-884

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OpenStack Compute (Nova) Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability

view advisory published 2026-07-06Licence: CC-BY-4.0

api/metadata/handler.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.4, 2014.x before 2014.1.2, and Juno before Juno-2, when proxying metadata requests through Neutron, makes it easier for remote attackers to guess instance ID signatures via a brute-force attack that relies on timing differences in responses to instance metadata requests.

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CVE-2014-3517USmedium4.3—
api/metadata/handler.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.4, 2014.x before 2014.1.2, and Juno before Juno-2, when proxying metadata requests through Neutron, makes it easie…
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