** Changed in: nova Milestone: havana-2 => havana-3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenStack Security Group, which is subscribed to OpenStack. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129748 Title: image files in _base should not be world-readable Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): In Progress 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1129748/+subscriptions