The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5866-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Nova did not properly manage data logged into the log file. An attacker with read     access to the service's logs could exploit this issue and may obtain sensitive information. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-9543)

    It was discovered that Nova did not properly handle attaching and reattaching the encrypted volume. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18191)

    It was discovered that Nova did not properly handle the updation of domain XML after live migration. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt the volume or perform a denial of service attack. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-17376)

    It was discovered that Nova was not properly validating the URL passed to noVNC. An attacker could     possibly use this issue by providing malicious URL to the noVNC proxy to redirect to any desired URL. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3654)

    It was discovered that Nova did not properly handle changes in the neutron port of vnic_type type. An     authenticated user could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-37394)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Nova vulnerabilities (USN-5866-1)

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