CVE-2013-6437

OpenStack Nova < 2013.2.2 and icehouse < icehouse-2 - Authenticated Denial of Service via Unique os_type Settings

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980

Scores

EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 63.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (3)
openstack/nova 2014.1 milestone1
openstack/nova 2013.1 - 2013.1.5
pypi/nova 0 - 12.0.0a0PyPI
Published Mar 06, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026