Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 61.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.0
References
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
Products affected by CVE-2013-6437
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2013.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.1