CVE-2013-6437

Openstack Nova < 2013.1.5 - Resource Management Error

Title source: rule

Description

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.

Scores

EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 62.4%

Classification

CWE
CWE-399
Status draft

Affected Products (3)

openstack/nova < 2013.1.5
openstack/nova
pypi/nova < 12.0.0a0PyPI

Timeline

Published Mar 06, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026