The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the block_device_mapping parameter.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 11.10 | 11.10.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 12.10 | 12.10.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | 12.04.x |