CVE-2024-32498

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Cinder through 24.0.0, Glance before 28.0.2, and Nova before 29.0.3. Arbitrary file access can occur via custom QCOW2 external data. By supplying a crafted QCOW2 image that references a specific data file path, an authenticated user may convince systems to return a copy of that file's contents from the server, resulting in unauthorized access to potentially sensitive data. All Cinder and Nova deployments are affected; only Glance deployments with image conversion enabled are affected.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cinder	25.10 questing	Fixed 2:24.1.0+git2024080717.383b830b-0ubuntu1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2:24.1.0+git2024080717.383b830b-0ubuntu1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2:24.1.0+git2024080717.383b830b-0ubuntu1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:24.0.0-0ubuntu1.2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2:23.0.0-0ubuntu1.4
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:20.3.1-0ubuntu1.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:16.4.2-0ubuntu2.8
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
glance	25.10 questing	Fixed 2:28.0.1-0ubuntu3
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2:28.0.1-0ubuntu3
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2:28.0.1-0ubuntu3
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:28.0.1-0ubuntu1.2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2:27.0.0-0ubuntu1.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:24.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:20.2.0-0ubuntu1.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:16.0.1-0ubuntu1.1+esm2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2+esm1
nova	25.10 questing	Fixed 3:29.0.1-0ubuntu4
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 3:29.0.1-0ubuntu4
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 3:29.0.1-0ubuntu4
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3:29.0.1-0ubuntu1.3
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1.3
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3:25.2.1-0ubuntu2.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:21.2.4-0ubuntu2.8
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation

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Notes

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The Image Import API Flow was introduced in version 17.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6882-1
Cinder vulnerability
8 July 2024

USN-6883-1
OpenStack Glance vulnerability
8 July 2024

USN-6884-1
Nova vulnerability
8 July 2024

USN-6882-2
Cinder regression
7 November 2024

USN-8199-1
OpenStack Glance vulnerabilities
22 April 2026