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Since this report concerns a possible security risk, an incomplete
security advisory task has been added while the core security reviewers
for the affected project or projects confirm the bug and discuss the
scope of any vulnerability along with potential solutions.

I agree with Robert, this expose OpenStack user instance data to all
context running on the compute node. Shell users aside, I fail to see
why would apache or even the nobody user be allowed to list and read
disk files.

** Also affects: ossa
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ossa
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  image files in _base should not be world-readable

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Opinion
Status in OpenStack Security Advisory:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Already public in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896085 ,
  so probably no point making this private.  But I checked the security
  vulnerability box anyway so someone else can decide.

  We create image files in /var/lib/nova/instances/_base with default
  permissions, usually 644.  It would be better to not make the image
  files world-readable, in case they contain private data.

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