CVE-2013-6437

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.

CVSS v2.0 4.0 MEDIUM

4.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

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

Exploitability : 8.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html	Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980	Third Party Advisory
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html	Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.1:milestone1::::::

History

21 Nov 2024, 01:59

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html - Patch, Vendor Advisory~~	() http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html - Patch, Vendor Advisory
References	~~() http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html - Third Party Advisory~~	() http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html - Third Party Advisory
References	~~() https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 - Third Party Advisory~~	() https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2014-03-06 15:55

Updated : 2024-11-21 01:59

NVD link : CVE-2013-6437

Mitre link : CVE-2013-6437

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2013-6437

JSON object : View

Products Affected

openstack

nova

CWE

CWE-399

Resource Management Errors

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