CVE-2013-4463

OpenStack Nova Folsom/Grizzly/Havana DoS via QCOW2 Image Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1

Scores

EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 35.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (4)
openstack/folsom
openstack/grizzly
openstack/havana
pypi/nova 0 - 12.0.0a0PyPI
Published Feb 06, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026