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CVE-2024-32498

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-32498 is a medium-severity arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting OpenStack Cinder, Glance (with image conversion enabled), and Nova. An authenticated attacker can craft a QCOW2 image to reference specific data file paths, tricking the system into returning the contents of those files. This could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data on the server. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and requiring low privileges, resulting in high confidentiality impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 22.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 23.0.0, < 23.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
24.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:24.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 26.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0083 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9Fixed in: openstack-nova-1:23.2.3-17.1.20231018130828.el9ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: openstack-cinder-1:15.4.0-1.20230510003503.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: openstack-glance-1:19.0.4-1.20230310213451.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: openstack-nova-1:20.4.1-1.20221005193234.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: openstack-cinder-1:15.6.1-2.20230906144858.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: openstack-glance-1:19.0.5-2.20230310205021.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: openstack-nova-1:20.6.2-2.20230814165228.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openstack-nova-1:23.2.3-17.1.20231018123754.el8ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9Fixed in: openstack-cinder-1:18.2.2-17.1.20231011140829.el9ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9Fixed in: openstack-glance-1:22.1.2-17.1.20230621071326.el9ost
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ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-r4v4-w9pv-6fphhigh

OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova vulnerable to arbitrary file access

Jul 5, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-32498Critical

OpenStack: malicious qcow2/vmdk images

Jul 2, 2024

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00016.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00017.html
launchpad.net / bugs/2059809
Issue TrackingPatch
security.openstack.org / ossa/OSSA-2024-001.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2024/07/02/2
Mailing ListPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2024/07/02/2