CVE-2013-1838

OpenStack Nova Essex/Folsom/Grizzly - Authenticated DoS via IP Quota Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.

References (14)

Core 14
Core References
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg21892.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24453/
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/52728
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/52580
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/91303
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24452/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82877
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18

Scores

EPSS 0.0143
EPSS Percentile 80.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 11.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.10
openstack/essex 2012.1
openstack/folsom 2012.2
openstack/grizzly 2012.2
pypi/nova 0 - 12.0.0a0PyPI
Published Mar 22, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026