PT-2014-3114 · Openstack · Openstack Compute

Phil Day · Published 2014-03-06 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2013-6437

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions prior to 2013.2.2 OpenStack Compute (Nova) icehouse versions prior to icehouse-2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service by creating and deleting instances with unique os type settings. This triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file, leading to disk consumption.

Recommendations For OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions prior to 2013.2.2, update to version 2013.2.2 or later. For OpenStack Compute (Nova) icehouse versions prior to icehouse-2, update to icehouse-2 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-6437

GHSA-HRV9-4X4C-9JC8

RHSA-2014:0231

Affected Products

Openstack Compute

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6437 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6437 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-6437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hrv9-4x4c-9jc8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/openstack/nova · Note
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3e451f1bac57d24e47171cffb3ad59bb1610d836 · Note
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6e455cd97f04bf26bbe022be17c57e089cf502f4 · Note
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ca38774ebcf5b67d16c202c8f218c0c433973ca9 · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 · Note