🛡️ CVE-2017-7214 — nova

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-532 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenStack Nova logs sensitive context from notification exceptions

An issue was discovered in exception_wrapper.py in OpenStack Nova 13.x through 13.1.3, 14.x through 14.0.4, and 15.x through 15.0.1. Legacy notification exception contexts appearing in ERROR level logs may include sensitive information such as account passwords and authorization tokens.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-7214 is classified as CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. Sensitive values are written to logs, which are typically kept longer and read more widely than the data warrants.

Affected software

CVE-2017-7214 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nova (from 15.0.1 up to 15.0.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 2 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
launchpad.net (Web)
www.securityfocus.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-532
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nova 15.0.1 15.0.2

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