CVE-2016-2140

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.021 · 82 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.11% (82nd) EPSS

CVSS 3.5 · low

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.5–5.3

v2.03.5lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 2.9

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 3.6

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.04.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USprimaryCWE-200US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
openstack nova12.0.0 → 12.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova2015.1.0 → 2015.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI nova12.0.0 → 12.0.3osvUSpkg:pypi/nova

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-49jv-37hm-6gfpOpenStack Nova host data access through resize/migration2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2026-864OpenStack Nova host data access through resize/migration2026-07-06vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-04-12modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

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