Vulnerability Details CVE-2013-4261
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.006
EPSS Ranking 69.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 3.5
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271